The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
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Franz Kafka
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
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Marguerite Yourcenar
See the moon? It hates us.
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Donald Barthelme
In my heart's most secret place, I pity them as angels do.
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Sara Teasdale
More Quotes By Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
