"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on admiration
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."

Addison, Joseph on admiration
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

Greer, Germaine on loneliness
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"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

Hoffer, Eric on age and aging
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"Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness."

Pascal, Blaise on bores and boredom   

"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

Unknown, Source on action   

"No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much."

Paul, Jean on laughter
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"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Havel, Vaclav on suicide
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on regret
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"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness."

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De on sorrow
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"So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on kindness
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"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

Beauvoir, Simone De on feminism
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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Mother Teresa on poverty and the poor
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."

Steinbeck, John on humankind
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"If youth knew; if age could."

Estienne, Henri on age and aging
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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."

Gray, Thomas on smile   

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Brookner, Anita on youth
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"In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears."

Paul, Jean on tears
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. "

Shaw, George Bernard on uncategorised   

"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."

Rimbaud, Arthur on youth
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"It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all."

Courteline, Georges on action
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on youth   

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."

Artaud, Antonin on psychiatry
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"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."

Bradley, Francis H. on suicide