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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Albert Camus

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

— George Orwell

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

— Epictetus

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

— Immanuel Kant

“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.”

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“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

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

— Edward R. Murrow

“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

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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 t...

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Margaret Atwood