No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

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There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and...

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and...

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing...

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are...

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive,...

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive,...

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real...

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real...

1: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for...

1: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for...

More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims...

More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims...

The worst is death, and death will have his day.

The worst is death, and death will have his day.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for...

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for...

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth...

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth...

99 bottles of Vicodin...

99 bottles of Vicodin...

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton,...

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton,...

Life's the greates torture sould feel in hell, In hell: that they must live, and...

Life's the greates torture sould feel in hell, In hell: that they must live, and...