There are situations in life which bring the impartial observer to the conclusion that suicide is a luxury which is within the reach of, and permissible to, wealthy people.
There are bookish dreams here, sir, there is a heart chafed by theories;
The truly great are, in my view, always bound to feel a great sense of sadness during their time upon earth.
The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of...
The poor little thing, she'd saved this student's letter as a treasure and had run to fetch this precious treasure of hers, not wanting me to leave without knowing that she too was the object of since...
The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and the chosen, predestined to begin a new race of men and a new life, to renew and purify t...
The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling blood of youth there comes a meek serene old age: I bless the daily rising of the su...
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And hav...
The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!
The high road is something very, very long, of which one cannot see the end - like human life, like human dreams. There is an idea in the open road, but what sort of idea is there in travelling with p...
The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he...
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be som...
Somehow I cannot helpbeing reminded of a frail, consumptive girl, at whom one sometimes lookswith compassion, sometimes with sympathetic love, whom sometimes onesimply does not notice; though suddenly...
Se habla del fuego del infierno tomando la expresión en su sentido literal. No me atrevo a sondear este misterio, pero me parece que si hubiese verdaderas llamas, los condenados se regocijarían, pues...
Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are fermenting, and...
People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth, he added dreamily, not in the tone of the conversat...
Only look about you: blood is being spilt in streams, and in the merriest way, as though it were champagne. Take the whole of the nineteenth century in which Buckle lived. Take Napoleon—the Great and...
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense.Or else a fool.