BolesÅ‚aw Prus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Emotion #Pity
Donâ€™t think about happiness. If it doesnâ€™t come, thereâ€™s no disappointment; if it does come, itâ€™s a surprise.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Disappointment #Thinking #Doe
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Sea #Compass #Folly
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Sacrifice #Self #Strange
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Remember #Ends
Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Disappointment #Thinking #Doe
Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.
-- BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Perfect #Feelings #Mind

Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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