“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”
Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Variant: Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“How many, tired of lying, commit suicide into any truth.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.
Voces (1943)
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
Phil Donahue (1935) American talk show host, film producer and writer
Attributed to Phil Donahue in: Dennis Coon, John Mitterer (2008), Psychology: Modules for Active Learning. p. 553
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
Thomas Bernhard book Correction
Source: Correction
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'épouvantable dans le suicide.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Though covered by Manson, this is actually a lyric to "Suicide Is Painless" written by Mike Altman for the movie M*A*S*H (1970); the music (written by Johnny Mandel) later provided the theme music for the M*A*S*H TV series.
Misattributed
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago
Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“If it's not important for you, then it's not important for me.”
Lucky Gupta (1998) Internet celebrity
2021
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.