David Mitchell Quote

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was h...

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be...

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so that there is an option left for...

I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any...