Quotes
Authors
David Mitchell
"If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable." --
David Mitchell
#Mean Quotes
#Adversity Quotes
#Purpose Quotes
“First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.”
“When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.”
“You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.”
“O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.”
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
“A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.”
“There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.”
“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”