Comfort Quote by Samuel Johnson

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

— Oscar Wilde

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

— Bertrand Russell

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will…

— Plutarch

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no means a sign of great and terrible misery. The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

— Hannah Arendt

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

— Seneca the Younger

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

— Plato

“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely…

— Rollo May

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment…

— Francis Bacon