Peace Quote by Sasha Sokolov

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…

— Paul Harding

“Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in a moment. Damned…

— William Cowper

“What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the…

— Jean-Luc Nancy

“In this sort of hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely justified; I felt the wars inside me that had left behind…

— Henry Miller

“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish…

— Victor Hugo

“I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret convulsive sobs from…

— Walt Whitman

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However wrong we…

— Henri Barbusse

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing…

— E. E. Cummings

“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin…

— Various