Montesquieu
View AuthorIf it were enough for us to be happy, things would be very easy; but we want to be happier than others, and this is almost always impossible, because we believe that others are much happier than they actually are.
Alberto Moravia
View AuthorHappiness is greater the less we notice it.
Haruki Murakami
View AuthorThen I didn't know. I didn't know that I was capable of hurting someone so deeply that they would never recover. Sometimes, there are people who can hurt others simply by existing.
Ovid
View AuthorI flee from what follows me; I go after what flees from me.
Giovanni Papini
View AuthorExcessive good health is disturbing, for its neighbor, illness, is always ready to bring it down.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorAlways being ready to be happy, it is inevitable not to be at some point.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorWe never truly live, but instead we hope to live; and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we never are.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorIt is miserable to know oneself to be miserable, but it is great to recognize that one is miserable.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorBut the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorIt's true that by suffering you can learn many things. The bad thing is that having suffered, we have lost the strength to make use of them.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorYou will be loved on the day you can show your weakness without the other using it to assert their strength.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorThe most dangerous human masses are those in whose veins the poison of fear has been injected... the fear of change.