Heighton Buckleys Quotes & Sayings

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

The future is always unknown. Don't worry about the future. Appreciate the present and be hopeful for the future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But this became the first plan of his life to fail. God told him - apparently with the help of human hands - to depart from his ribcage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people were tempted to live in the future, they quickly gave it up, as far as possible, suffering the wounds that the imagination eventually inflicts on those who trust in it. — Albert Camus

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. — Libba Bray

The fact that I'm the reason for that heated look in his eyes makes me feel even more desirable than when I imagine being perfect. — Colleen Hoover