God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970
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Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672