Emotions and Feelings

The more he plumbed the depths of sensual pleasure, the more he emerged with grit rather than pearls.

Debauchee, n . One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.

The man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him, and he will certainly miss him.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Passion makes the best observations and draws the most wretched conclusions.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of pain.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

It is easy for the one who stands outside The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one Who suffers.

The block of granite which was an obstacle on the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone on the pathway of the strong.

The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

There are only two forces that unite men—fear and interest.