All Quotes By Tag: Pessimism
“Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.”
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“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.”
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“Happiness is merely a consolation for not yet being dead.”
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“The unwise hope for the best … and prepare for only the best.”
“An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness.”
“Once is never. Twice is always.”
“Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.”
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“Fuck you! I hope you die!””Everybody Dies,” I said. “So fuck you.”
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“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
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“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible”
“In my heart’s most secret place,I pity them as angels do.”
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“See the moon? It hates us.”
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“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”
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