#lt

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#money #wealth #life

You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#kneebiter-in-u-s #life

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#romance #skye-tierney #life

Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt. ↗

— Marta Acosta

#dark-companion #fairness #games #life #trying

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. ↗

— John Abbott

#culture #every #increased #man #may

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#essence #faculty #highest #lord #man

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life. ↗

— Jane Addams

#inspirational #justice #oppression #social-justice #inspirational

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#culture #guns #war #life

...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life. ↗

— Doreen Orion

#cruelty #empathy #teasing #life

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#deification #kim-jong-il #north-korea #personal-life #privacy