“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

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Simone Weil

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Will Durant

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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...