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The human condition3 quotes
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death. — Montesquieu · 1721God and man2 quotes
Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. — Alice Walker · 1982If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides. — Montesquieu · 1721Adulthood1 quote
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Beauty of nature1 quote
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it… People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. — Alice Walker · 1982Being in love1 quote
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Birth and death1 quote
Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death. — Montesquieu · 1721Emotions1 quote
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Feeling loved1 quote
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. — Alice Walker · 1982God1 quote
If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides. — Montesquieu · 1721Hopelessly in love1 quote
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Immaturity1 quote
A grown child is a dangerous thing. — Alice Walker · 1982Looking back1 quote
Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761Love1 quote
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Nature1 quote
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it… People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. — Alice Walker · 1982Nature of God1 quote
If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides. — Montesquieu · 1721Nature of man1 quote
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Nature of time1 quote
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker · 1982Need for love1 quote
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. — Alice Walker · 1982Remembering one's youth1 quote
Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761The Church1 quote
Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. — Alice Walker · 1982Time1 quote
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker · 1982Tragic view of life1 quote
Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death. — Montesquieu · 1721Yin and yang1 quote
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Youth1 quote
Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761