Albert Vroomen > Albert's Quotes

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”
― Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny

“Еще раз – без равенства нет брака в самом деле. Жена, исключенная из всех интересов, занимающих ее мужа, чуждая им, не делящая их, – наложница, экономка, нянька, но не жена в полном, в благородном значении слова.”
― Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts