Insightful Quote by W Somerset Maugham

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That can be the cruelest part of happiness--its tendency to disguise itself as boredom.”

— Marie-Helene Bertino

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy,…

— Mark Twain

“I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.”

— Spectator no. 7

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

— Albert Camus

“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk