Quote by Will Durant

“What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet…

— Voltaire

“I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most pernicious inclinations.…

— Voltaire

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of…

— Salman Rushdie

“There is only one real burden of life: The Death. All other burdens can always be handled!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We must all be allowed our moments of insanity and senselessness. Without them, what sort of dull, lifeless creatures would we be?”

— Hannah Linder

“How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Sometimes the burden of life crushes people so mercilessly that a completely unrealistic situation arises: It is as if that terrible burden has disappeared…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“ridiculous if not positively touched, filthy and mean-spirited to be so poor, vain to have airs and graces when so poor, superstitious to hold…

— Christina Stead

“And what does it mean - ridiculous? wWhat does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous? Besides, nowadays…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky