Annihilation Quote by Winifred Holtby Download Open image “The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.” — Winifred Holtby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Annihilation Crowns Happiness Inspirational life Life Life is Understanding
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Living a purposeless life will not give happiness to you or others. — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
Happiness never resides in the heart of an indifferent and jealous countenance. — Liera Narap Copy Share Image
There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. — Victor Robinson Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void. — Crispian Mills Copy Share Image
“The breath had become as much a trick as breathing. Things were not dual merely, but multiple. I had become a cage of mirrors… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to.… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
