Darkly Comical Quotes

Thinking is talking of the soul to itself. – Plato

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. – P.W. Litchfield

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. – Otway

Flash powder makes a more brilliant light than the arc lamp, but you can’t use it to light your street corner because it doesn’t last long enough. Stability is more essential to success than brilliancy. – Richard Lloyd Jones

By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house of Never. – Cervantes

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be noticed. – Storm Johnson

Queer thing, but we always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks. – Eden Phillpotts

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osburn