But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Paton

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Anthony Storr

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Bob Dylan

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

Harlan Coben

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have

Ernest Hemingway

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns

Gold is what people worship if they don't go with the invisible God.

James Dye

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Lena Horne

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

C.S. Lewis