Doomed Quote by William James Download Open image “We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doomed Life
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's because we innately know that everything is impermanent that we so desperately cling to it. But cling we do. We know that… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
