Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
Seneca the Younger
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
Vanity
'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
Aaron Sorkin
I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
Dan Webster
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova
I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
Kage Baker
Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
Warren Farrell
All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
Octavia E. Butler
Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
Wallace Stevens
Don't believe everything you think - or feel.
Anna Chancellor
'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'
Franz Kafka
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
Neil Diamond
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Mason Cooley
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
Sebastian Faulks
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Oscar Wilde
Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
Imtiaz Ali
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
Seneca the Younger
