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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De | Admiration | 3 bookmarks

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. | Admiration | 7 bookmarks

"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 | Admiration | 3 bookmarks

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

Greer, Germaine | Loneliness | 8 bookmarks

"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 | Age and Aging | 3 bookmarks

"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 | Bores and Boredom | 1 bookmarks

"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

Unknown, Source | Action | 1 bookmarks

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

Paul, Jean | Laughter | 1 bookmarks

"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Havel, Vaclav | Suicide | 2 bookmarks

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf | Regret | 2 bookmarks