(27 quotes found)
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
W. M. Lewis
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
Plato
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
Oscar Wilde
“It's a tough question and it requires introspection.”
Jonathan Smith
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
Albert Camus
“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
Horace Walpole
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is”
Francis Bacon Sr.