Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. â¢Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. â¢Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. â¢Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;" And tender friends go sighing round, "What love can ever cure this wound?" My days go on, my days go on.
Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]
O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fallâthink of it, ALWAYS.
No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.