English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

David Hume Quotes

If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose of it; nor could one man deserve the appellation of hero, whom glory or friendship transports into the greatest dangers, and another merit the reproach of wretch or misereant who puts a period to his life, from the same or like motives.

David Hume

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it just that time for once is stopped that makes you... Anne Tyler
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. Henry W. Kendall
Oliver Stone quote: "It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest,..."
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. Oliver Stone
William Goldman quote: "I'm not witch. I'm your wife."
I'm not witch. I'm your wife. William Goldman
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. Robert Wyatt
Kesha quote: "I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases."
I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases. Kesha
One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen. Benedict Cumberbatch
There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can! Jody Watley
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love. Paulo Coelho
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. Gustave Flaubert
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs. And stare as long as sheep or cows... W. H. Davies
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. Alfred A. Knopf
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we..."
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. Jim Rohn