“He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.”
More from Alice Hoffman on Philosophy
“Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.”
“We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.”
“Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”
“I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.”
“That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
T. S. Eliot
13 quotes“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”