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

— Albert Camus

“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

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Wallace Stevens

“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

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Ernest Hemingway