Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Stephen Hawking

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)

Oscar Wilde

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Simone Weil

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sydney Madwed

I shall always be a priest of love.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Camille Anna Paglia

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

Ferdinand De Saussure

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

CharlesDamian Boulogne, My Frien