Ancient Quote by William Wilberforce

“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review the times…

— Charlotte Brontë

“We stare vacantly into our own future, frightened of all that time confiscates from us. We lament the theft of our beauty, youth, and…

— Shakieb Orgunwall

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is…

— Ann Radcliffe

“We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands--whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring them to…

— Mark Slouka

“It is always easy to mock 'distress,' but we are its contemporaries; we are at the endpoint of what Nous, ratio, & Logos, still…

— Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“OFTEN WHEN OUR FALLING AND our wretchedness are shown to us, we are so ... greatly ashamed of ourselves that we scarcely know where…

— Lisa E. Dahill

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace…

— Adolf Hitler

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The lens of Pessimism ethics; pierces the illusions of optimism, reminds us that pain and evil are not mere outliers but prevailing forces in…

— Carson Anekeya