“ Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ We can only know one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
“ There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior. ”
- Jessica Alba- Copy
“ There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write "metropolis" for seven cents, because I can get the same money for "city… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness — not crimes and scandals. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
“ Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand… ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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