A Quote by Fernando Pessoa

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese - Author
June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Alan Cumming

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

William Shakespeare

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

John G. Lake

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

William Shakespeare

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

William Shakespeare

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.

Wilhelm Reich

Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

Confucius

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

Frederick Lenz

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

Donald Barthelme

How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.