Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
View AuthorHuman life is like a path whose exit is a horrifying precipice; we are warned about it from the first steps; but the decree has already been pronounced: it is necessary to always move forward without being able to retreat.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
View AuthorThe past is the past. There is a future for all men who repent and have energy.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorLife is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient data.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
View AuthorThat all life is a dream and dreams are just dreams.
Italo Calvino
View AuthorUnrealized futures are just branches of the past: dry branches.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorNo matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.
Joseph Conrad
View AuthorThe belief in some kind of supernatural evil is not necessary. Men alone are capable of any evil.
Joseph Conrad
View AuthorLife is a farce: that mysterious arrangement of relentless logic for a futile purpose. The most one can expect from it is a certain self-knowledge, which comes too late, and a harvest of unquenchable regrets.
Cristina II
View AuthorLife is a traffic where losses and gains are balanced.
Aeschylus of Eleusis
View AuthorNot even sitting by the fire in his home can man escape the sentence of his destiny.
Edmund Husserl
View AuthorThe world is born within us, as Descartes made us recognize, and within us it acquires its habitual influence.
Edmund Husserl
View AuthorThe judgment, the evaluation, the pretension, are not empty experiences that consciousness has, but experiences composed of an intentional stream