"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage | Absence | 12 bookmarks

"Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided."

Ruckett | Heart | 1 bookmarks

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

Beecher, Henry Ward | Joy | 1 bookmarks

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo | Apathy | 5 bookmarks

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert | Apathy | 10 bookmarks

"To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."

Ederle, Gertrude | Sea | 5 bookmarks

"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Gogh, Vincent Van | Sea | 5 bookmarks

"It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys."

Orczy, Baroness | Sea | 2 bookmarks

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

Cioran, E. M. | Suicide | 4 bookmarks

"An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support"

Huxley, Aldous | Atheism | 3 bookmarks