Life Quote by Thomas Mann

“(...) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness,…

— Thomas Mann

“In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving…

— Marcel Proust

“Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.”

— Johann von Goethe

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to her- though…

— Jane Austen

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted…

— Wallace Stevens

“while the excluded begin to realize, having endured everything, that they can endure everything.”

— James Baldwin

“but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured,”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“But all civilisations pass away and, even while they remain, inflict peculiar sufferings of their own probably sufficient to outweigh what alleviations they may…

— Business and Leadership Publishing

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

— Simone Weil

“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We are penned…

— Bill Hopkins