GREAT QUOTES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI

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GREAT QUOTES OF DANTE

“Do not be afraid; our fate 

Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” - Dante Alighieri

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” - Dante Alighieri

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.” - Dante Alighieri

“The path to paradise begins in hell.” - Dante Alighieri

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.” - Dante Alighieri

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” - Dante Alighieri

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always” - Dante

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN MILTON

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF MILTON

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What hath night to do with sleep?” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.” - John Milton, Areopagitica

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Freely we serve

Because we freely love, as in our will

To love or not; in this we stand or fall.” - John Milton

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

GREAT QUOTES OF SHAKESPEARE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF SHAKESPEARE

1. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

2. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

3. “Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

4. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

5. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

6. “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”

7. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

8. “Nothing can come of nothing.”

9. “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

10. “What’s done can’t be undone.”

GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, 

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

GREAT QUOTES OF KARL MARX

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF KARL MARX

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.” “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

GREAT QUOTES OF SARTRE

GREAT QUOTES OF SARTRE

you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Hell is—other people!” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“We are our choices.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.” ― Jean Paul Sartre

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

GREAT QUOTES OF NIETZSCHE

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GREAT QUOTES OF NIETZSCHE

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche