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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Colette

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Gertrude Stein

“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.”

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Epictetus

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

“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...

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

— Leo Rosten