Thomas Hardy Quote

Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very end...

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Happiness is the most tired word in any language.

But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Life is not a maze where you have your eyes on the gaps, life is a beautiful journey, stop looking for the gaps.

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to...