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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.


Aldous Huxley

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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ELIZABETH BOWEN My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
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DEYTH BANGER What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
OSCAR WILDE It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The fools enjoy their pleasures; they must also endure all their pains. From pleasures, arise diseas...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the ...
OSCAR WILDE Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
SAM KINISON Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It can't be easy. I would like to empathize, but I can't. All I can do is sympathize with him.
CHAN GAILEY 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misuse...
RICHARD DAWKINS But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov...
MICHEL EYQUEM I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discove...
CARROLL BRYANT For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand ...
JOHN HAWKES Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One of the greatest pleasures in life, is to observe the amazed look on peoples' faces when you achi...
ZENG HAN JUN It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their m...
KELSEY SUTTON Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
HUGH GRANT This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
UNKNOWN There are certain jobs where an MP3 player can make a person more productive, if they're doing somet...
MARK YELLEN You can only sympathize with the victims' pain.
FRANCOIS ROUX I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?
DEYTH BANGER Peoples Will Not Fight With You For Your Imagination But Peoples Will Fight With You For Your Belief...
NOOR AHMED Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requir...
OSCAR WILDE An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently...
ANDREW GREELEY I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-...
DALAI LAMA XIV Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...
LEON URIS Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's a very good institution. You can't help but sympathize with the people who work there.
LAURA GUNN An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permane...
ANDREW GREELEY I sympathize with every kitchen porter.
JAMIE BELL I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something ter...
DAVID WALLIAMS I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
LYDIA DAVIS I sympathize with this person, but it's really not any different than a posting on an anonymous Web ...
EUGENE VOLOKH Everyone with chest pains gets an EKG. Whether to send it is our discretion, but if there is any que...
MIKE HUGHES The sickened human is something to be experimented with.
STEVEN MAGEE To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize wi...
JASON AARON You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their op...
JOHN SCHNEIDER You get to know them, and all about their family, their aches and pains. Sometimes you laugh with th...
HARVEY WOLTER With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am e...
ART HILL Happiness is simply the absence of pain. Curiously everybody realizes the need of happiness only in ...
VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO I can sympathize with them. Because I know, you know, every time I look at the benefits I had, they'...
BILL GARRISON If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. The...
ZACHARY LEVI We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN Let's find something that gets [the students] thinking, debating. I think there is a place for lectu...
JAMES NELSON I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is t...
MORTEN TYLDUM Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe next time it can be an Australian but this is a global game. It's not about nationality, it's ...
FRANK LOWY Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are
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SARA SHEPARD The statements I made on July 5th were fueled by despair and frustration because of still not knowin...
BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of Ame...
HIDEKI TOJO But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
KARL LIEBKNECHT One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
BARBARA BUSH Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes yo...
LEMONY SNICKET It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with t...
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it...
BUSY PHILIPPS If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they mi...
GUS VAN SANT An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn ...
BRUCE MCGILL There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you...
ISAAC HAYES Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours...
JAMES AGATE I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insuranc...
RON DESANTIS Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from th...
DAVID MITCHELL Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the ...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the r...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The American people believe that there is something out there . . . with their name on it, ... There...
CLAY SHAW Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
DEMOCRITUS Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains
DEMOCRITUS The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON And even though things are heavy right now, it occurs to me how happy I am just to be with my friend...
DAVID ARNOLD Love is a path lined with roses." I say bitterly. "But it leads to a cliff's edge and all who follow...
JESSICA KHOURY We sympathize with the neighbors' desire to keep it as open space, but we have a greater responsibil...
TONY WINNICKER One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
BARBARA BUSH Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures...
GEORGE ELIOT You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but whe...
SHANNON L. ALDER

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ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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