Quotes in this theme
Pain and Despair
Caio Valério Catulo
Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior .
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Conde de Lautréamont
Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well,—parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Talent is often to be envied, and genius very commonly to be pitied. It stands twice the chance of the other of dying in a hospital, in jail, in debt, in bad repute.
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Fiódor Dostoiévski
In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.
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Fiódor Dostoiévski
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. J.R.R.
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