“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
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“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him" ( Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9 https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf). A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: If you're going through hell, keep going <br class="br">Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/
“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, ch. 10
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“Know what to Do. And do it Yourself.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“When you are happy it is harder to write”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
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Gayle King XM satellite radio program (October 23, 2006)
2007, 2008
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“There is no right life in the wrong one.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Source: And Then There Were None
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Byrne (1928–2013) American chess player and writer
“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
Nick Hornby book High Fidelity
Source: High Fidelity
William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
"Is Life Worth Living?"
Variant: Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Source: 1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”
Miriam Toews (1964) Canadian writer known for novels set in the Mennonite community
Source: Swing Low
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
Judith Guest (1936) Novelist, screenwriter
"Elm" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/elm.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965) <br class="br">Context: p>I am inhabited by a cry.<br>Nightly it flaps out<br>Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thing<br>That sleeps in me;<br>All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.</p
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story