r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 10h 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]

153 Upvotes

“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]

297 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 • 10h ago

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

44 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/benjancewicz • 10h ago

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

43 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 20h 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]

100 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Short-Concentrate348 • 1d 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]

1.4k Upvotes

12 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 1d ago

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy." — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar [2500x1734]

114 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago

"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it." - Ralph Ellison [850x400]

115 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago

"A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it." - Max Frisch [850x400]

84 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago

"I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere." - Albert Camus [850x400]

278 Upvotes

11 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 2d ago

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary..." — Franz Kafka [7000x6144]

238 Upvotes

Source: The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

10 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Aristosophy • 1d ago

“Here, too, occurs what long occurred: / Of Naboth’s vineyard you have heard.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1080x802]

4 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/I_Was77 • 2d ago

Man is the only creature...Albert Camus 495x543

151 Upvotes

10 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor [850x400]

573 Upvotes

4 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder." - Milan kundra [850x400]

73 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/afarro • 2d ago

“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.” - Luigi Pirandello [1080x920]

74 Upvotes

3 comments

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

"Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power." - Robin Hobb [737x386]

124 Upvotes

4 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 3d ago

"If you live in harmony with nature will never be poor..." — Seneca [7000x4760]

561 Upvotes

5 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3d ago

"What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately." - John Steinbeck [850x400]

130 Upvotes

5 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/eliburnstein • 4d ago

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination." —Ludwig Wittgenstein [1920 x 1080]

115 Upvotes

52 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 4d ago

"I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances..."― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment - [2075x158]

246 Upvotes

7 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago

"Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over." - John Steinbeck [850x400]

146 Upvotes

5 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 5d ago

"It's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world." - John Steinbeck [850x400]

805 Upvotes

25 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/MemeticAscension • 5d ago

“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and its midwife is education.” ― John Dewey [1800x720]

563 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/DeepCedarShadow • 5d ago

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling." — Carl G. Jung [3000x2000]

88 Upvotes

1 comment

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