Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 1, “The Boundaries” Section 8 (p. 20)
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9780824036461], vol. 1, p. 763.
Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness
Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Context: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
“Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Interview with Ashleigh Banfield on ABC's Good Morning America (17 March 2011); also in "Trump on 2012: ‘Part of Beauty of Me Is I'm Very Rich'" (17 March 2011) http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/03/17/trump-on-2012-part-of-beauty-of-me-is-im-very-rich/ <br class="br">2010s, 2011
“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Seward, 617
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Roosevelt's first letter, written at age five to his mother Sara Roosevelt ("Sallie") who had been ill in her room at Hyde Park. She later supplied the date - "1887" - on beginning her collection. <br class="br"> F.D.R. : His Personal Letters, Early Years (2005), edited by Elliott Roosevelt http://books.google.com/books?id=8p25NCpzU7YC&pg=PA6, p. 6] <br class="br">1880s
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 62
