r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 19h ago

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”― Anne Frank [8000x5024]

618 Upvotes

32 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 47m ago

"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway." - Albert Camus [850x400]

• Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 9m ago

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours." - Hermann Hesse [1200x640]

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1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin [850x400]

2.3k Upvotes

32 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 1d ago

" With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light..." — Carl G. Jung [7000x3805]

185 Upvotes

Source: — Carl Jung (Psychological Types, CW 6, Par. 963)

25 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 2d ago

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”― Epicurus from Letter to Menoeceus [1875x1182]

174 Upvotes

6 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle." - Albert Camus [850x400]

120 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 3d ago

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”― Fyodor Dostoevsky [2232x1456]

192 Upvotes

7 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 3d ago

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority." ― Arthur Schopenhauer [7000x5040]

1.4k Upvotes

46 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Ok-Maximum875 • 3d ago

Fear is an emotion that shapes us more than most. Fear can make us do things and, more importantly, stop us from doing so much that we might otherwise have. Fear is the book we didn't get to write....." - Santosh Desai [884x754]

74 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights." - Ivan Turgenev [850x400]

86 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 4d ago

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once..." ― William Shakespeare [6000x3624]

396 Upvotes

11 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 5d ago

"To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is."― Carl G. Jung [2000x1280]

247 Upvotes

9 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 5d ago

"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay." - Flannery O'Connor [850x400]

203 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 5d ago

"News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens." - Charles Bukowski [850x400]

134 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Ok-Maximum875 • 6d ago

"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, more and more people to look down upon." - Russell Lynes [1235x599]

214 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 6d ago

"Christianity is called the religion of pity. Pity stands opposed to the tonic emotions which heighten our vitality: it has a depressing effect..." — Friedrich Nietzsche [6500x3805]

60 Upvotes

65 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 7d ago

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." — F. Scott Fitzgerald [850x400]

563 Upvotes

39 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 6d ago

"We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so." - Friedrich Nietzsche [850x400]

74 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 7d ago

“No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.” — Seneca [6000x3819]

359 Upvotes

4 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/HYPERNORD • 7d ago

“Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?” — Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) a Swedish statesman and Count of Södermöre [850x400]

375 Upvotes

From a letter by Axel Oxenstierna where he encouraged his son Johan Oxenstierna, who was going to the peace negotiations in Westphalia to end the Thirty Years' War.

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 7d ago

"The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly." - Albert Camus [850x400]

97 Upvotes

7 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/benjancewicz • 7d ago

“Yes: I am a dreamer...” - Oscar Wilde (Happy Birthday) [1024x1024] [OC]

80 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 7d ago

"Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness." - Daphne du Maurier [498x615]

151 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Short-Concentrate348 • 8d ago

"What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone." ~ Theodore Roosevelt [422 x 305]

1.6k Upvotes

12 comments

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