There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThere is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976