Adverse Quote by Thomas Mann

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,…

— Steven Pinker

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life…

— William James

“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to…

— Massad Ayoob

For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and…

— B. R. Ambedkar

“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism…

— James Hillman

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for…

— Samuel Johnson

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

— Philip Massinger

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

— Virgil

“The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each…

— Henry David Thoreau