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

— Erich Fromm

“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...

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Colette

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre