Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834
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I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCCredulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843