“ You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out. Hap… Albert Camus
“ I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized t… Albert Camus
“ With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the… George MacDonald
“ There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment. Alistair Begg
“ One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day. Albert Camus
“ The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbitrarily making good pleasures seem guilty, but a basic inauthenticity, a kind of predisposition to ba… Thomas Merton
“ A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intellige… Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
“ This world tainted everything it touched, and nothing good was left—could be left – beneath its menacing gaze. Cassandra Giovanni
“ We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help. Albert Camus