“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.” WayHumansSeemsRealizingPowerfulEmotionPersonalityEssentialsDespairAmbitionDrivenComponentsHuman PersonalityMysterious Benedict SocietyPowerful Emotions Author:Trenton Lee Stewart
“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.” NeedsHumansSoulFactsSpiritCertainUniverseEmotionGreaterExpressionDespairFindingsProfoundBoredomSublimeHuman SpiritBoundlessHuman Emotions Author:Giacomo Leopardi
“Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.” HumanityGriefEmotionShareDespairWasteLaysAttributesWornWoeEcstatic Book:The last man, by the author of Frankenstein Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein
“Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.” PeopleThinkingMayFeelingsArtistCoursesNaturalEmotionPaintingExpressionDespairMoodNatural Feelings Author:Francis Bacon