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

— Will Durant

“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

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Wallace Stevens

“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.”

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Albert Camus

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Henry Miller