Friedrich Nietzsche
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Ethics
Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living… Continue reading Henry David Thoreau
Emmanuel Levinas
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. — Emmanuel Levinas
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. (Penguin Classics; First Thus edition January 28, 1982) Originally published 1665.
Albert Camus
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. — Albert Camus
Baruch Spinoza
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing. ― Baruch Spinoza
Friedrich Nietzsche
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Judith Butler
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision. — Judith Butler
Jean-Paul Sartre
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ― Jean-Paul Sartre
Søren Kierkegaard
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy. ― Søren Kierkegaard
The Vale of Soul-Making 