“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”

— Will Durant

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

— William Faulkner

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

— Haruki Murakami

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

— Émile Zola

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

— Franz Kafka

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo