Darkly Comical Quotes

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. – Coleridge

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. – Burke

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad. – Ibsen

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Emerson

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. -J.F. Clarke

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers. – Hugh Black