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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776)
I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)
Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Contarini Fleming (1832), Part 1, Chapter 13
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 49.
- Charity
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876), Book 3, Ch. 24
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 4 : Life and Death and All That p.43
When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity⁠— that was a quality God’s image carried with it.
Graham Greene1904–1991The Power and the Glory (1940)
- God
Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Under Western Eyes (1911), Pt. I, ch. 2
Tears do not burn except in solitude.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995On the Heights of Despair (1934)
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844), “Grief”
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 202, tr. R. J. Hollingdale
- Humor
I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
Sylvia Plath1932–1963Journal entry from July 1950 – 1953, p. 63 of the original, p. 55 of the collection
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 2
- Health
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus1913–1960A Happy Death (written 1936-38 (published in 1971, over 11 years after the author’s death))