Vh1 Hindsight Quotes & Sayings

Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor. — Max Weber

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice. — Richard Bach

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther

Death was impatient. . . . — J.K. Rowling

Everything is so finite but that's what makes our time and specific moments so important. — Ethan Hawke

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you. — Dominic Cooper

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented. — John Bright

There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading. — John Hope Franklin

Human existence is a penal colony; a sexually transmitted disease; a disappointment; nothing but suffering; "a sky-dive: out of a cunt into the grave"; a one-way ticket to the crematorium. "Nobody gets out of here alive". Every day is a grim passage, a struggle through moments and hours of loneliness, boredom, emptiness, and self-loathing. I count myself among the pessimists. I believe that life is suffering. I force myself (my contraself) to look at other positions, but this remains my default. More specifically, I am a depressive realist. — Colin Feltham

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered. — Sharon Salzberg

We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved. — Rob Bignell, Editor

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. — Barbara De Angelis

I've always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn't happened to them. — Roshani Chokshi