“There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.”
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“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”
“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
“The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.”
“Life without pain has no meaning.”
“Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.”
“One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.”
“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
“A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.”
“Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.”
“The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.”
“At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.”
“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”
“When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.”
“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.”
“Life is not always good, which is why music exists.”
“Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”
“Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.”