Solitude
The surest cue for vanity is loneliness
Thomas Wolfe
You can never have too many friends.
The profound unmitigated loneliness it’s the only truth of life
R.K. Narayan
Love
People do not hurt us, our hopes from them hurt us
Iman Ali
People in love often become edgy, dangerous; they lose their sense of perspective
Charles Bukowski
It’s such a liability to love another person
Janet Fitch
Love is a tyrant of the heart, it darkens reason, confounds discretion, deaf to counsel, it runs a headlong course to desperate madness
John Ford
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
People will do anything rather than consider their dreadful reality
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious
Larry David
Every man turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he’s in love
Leopold Von Sacher Masoch
Truth
Every decoding is another encoding
David Lodge
Politeness is fictitious of benevolence
Samuel Johnson
If thing is as clear as daylight. Mistrust it!
Someone has made it so.
Agatha Christie
You’ll never know which path is better, you can only know the outcome of the one you choose
Atmir Anathema
Fate has no reprieve
Euripides
To avoid pain they avoid pleasure; to avoid death they avoid life
Osho
The normal make a living, the deranged make a history
Christopher Titus
Happiness and absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable
Albert Camus ‘The Myth of Sysyphus’ 1942
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living, that is the fundamental question of philosophy.”
Albert Camus ‘The Myth of Sysyphus’ 1942
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem
Henry A Kissinger
If not possible for anyone to be absolutely, and in every conceivable way completely content
Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards
Happiness is a greatest hiding place for despair
Soren Kierkegaard
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness
Soren Kierkegaard
If you don’t have many friends that means you have a lot of life experiences
Soren Kierkegaard
Negative
To have faith is to lose your mind and to win God
No one asks you when you want to enter the world no one asks when you want to leave
Youth is a blunder,
Manhood is a struggle,
Old age is a regret
Benjamin Disraeli
Meandering leads to perfection 