Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I'm all over the place.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

The world is a pile of grunge.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.

Generally when there's a lot of smoke... there's just a whole lot more smoke.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Things are electric. If we don't make up our minds on what we are going to do ... there will be pandemonium. Of course, if we do there may also be pandemonium.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.