Posted by: 0kiika0
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
To be misunderstood is the fate of the like of us.
from the book "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be misunderstood is the fate of the like of us.
If you ask me how the people are here I'll have to answer you: as they are everywhere, the human race is a whole!
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.
It is said that when someone looks at the stars it is as if they wanted to find their own dimension lost in the universe.
Genius moves within folly, in the sense that is kept afloat there where the madman drowns.
Don't sit there watching your life as if it were a film. Don't be the spectator, become the actor and director that has the right to change the lines of his script because he doesn't own them anymore!
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.