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- But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
- There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo
- Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
- Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Viktor Frankl, "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" Man's Search for Meaning (1959, 1962, 1985)
- The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
- Larry Wall
- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981), From "Zion Train" lyrics.
- And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
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