"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."

Artaud, Antonin on Drugs
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"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."

Mamet, David on Honesty
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"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey."

Proust, Marcel on Illness
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"As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands."

Byron, Lord on Ambition
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"Time is that in which all things pass away."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Time and Time Management
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"Passions are the only orators to always convinces us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Speakers and Speaking
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on Duty
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"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

Half, Robert on Talent
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"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston on Security
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"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

Trotsky, Leon on Planning
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"He who is not impatient is not in love."

Proverb, Italian on Love
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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on Action
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"We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us."

Yeats, William Butler on Happiness
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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."

Cocteau, Jean on Critics and Criticism
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"Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Bores and Boredom
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Life and Living
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"I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers."

Truman, Harry S on Politicians and Politics
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"Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly."

Boileau, Nicholas on Reason
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"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."

Boileau, Nicholas on Honor
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"If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires."

Boileau, Nicholas on Ancestry
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand on Illusion
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"These have not the hope to die."

Dante Alighieri on Death and Dying
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"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on Desire
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on Love
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"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."

Wordsworth, William on Death and Dying
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