We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. Self-Analysis

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. If, instead of saying "throughout eternity," the couple would say, "until Easter, until next May Day," then what they say would make some sense, for then they would be saying something and also something they perhaps could carry out. Either/Or

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. The Karamazov Brothers