I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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William Saroyan
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Sophocles
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
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H. L. Mencken
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Simone Weil
More Quotes By Simone Weil
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which...
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are...
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering, ” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.
