Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
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One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCI’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
—Georges Bataille, 1957Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818