I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
-
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
-
Dalai Lama Xiv
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-
Albert Camus
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
-
Bertolt Brecht
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms....
-
William Shakespeare
More Quotes By W.h. Auden
We must love one another or die
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious...
Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.
