Marcus Aurelius Quotes

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

False hope is worse than despair.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

But nothing seems to do any good.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.