Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
TREVOR MCDONALD Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, bu...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net ...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedo...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evi...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has gro...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and ala...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of ...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment ...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a l...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such ru...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doub...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless n...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
ALVIN TOFFLER What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance
JANE AUSTEN Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBER The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
TOBA BETA RUMOUR:
"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing ...
BARRY MANN Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA One with firm state of mind handles pressure with courage & with attitude not to give up. One with w...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once ...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperati...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Thinking about sadness and loneliness, and what it means to be sad, how to live with it, walk throug...
RIITTA KLINT The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the reg...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once ...
LEO TOLSTOY Unlike the laws of reality that scientist describe in complex mathematical equations, the laws that ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER She didn't want to be considered a woman yet, wasn't ready to be the recipient of jewelry from men.
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
ARIEL DORFMAN The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE "Love" is control, projection, and insecurity. Appreciation cancels out all of these things, a conti...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. ELIOT The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. ELIOT We live in an age of mediocrity.
LAUREN BACALL I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so tr...
TERESA HEINZ KERRY I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human...
ORSON WELLES I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
EDEN SHER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practi...
HARRY NILSSON And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with ...
SALLY KEMPTON How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
CHARLES DICKENS An individual who likes to be alone and relies himself more than anybody else in this world is quite...
CHANDRABABU V.S. The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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MAE WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi...
REBECCA WEST But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
REBECCA WEST Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
MAE WEST You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's...
REBECCA WEST It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
MAE WEST He is every other inch a gentleman.
REBECCA WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST