SO GOOD QUOTES

  • The best way to heal yourself? Heal others.

    Bittersweet
    Susan Cain

  • But he took his belief that life wasn’t worth living and turned it on its head, asking what would make life worthwhile after all—what a single human could do to benefit humanity.

    Bittersweet
    Susan Cain

  • We should strive “to participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.”

    Bittersweet
    Susan Cain

  • He was self-indulgent, a failure. He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • “What do you do from morning to night?”

    “I endure myself.”

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • More than once, I have managed to leave my room, for if I had stayed there I could not be sure of being able to resist some sudden resolution. The street is more reassuring, you think less about yourself there.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

    Nausea
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Better to go back to the studio in Via Margutta, where despair expressed itself, at least, in the empty canvas upon which I would never paint.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia