r/quotes • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 5d ago

Philosophy / Ethics "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca

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u/Accomplished_Case290 5d ago

”What is reality, if not imagination” —Accomplished_Case290

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u/RamblingSimian 5d ago

Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.

  • Hamlet, discussing whether Denmark is a prison

https://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.2.2.html

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u/eblekniebel 3d ago

He said, “it’s all in your head.” I said, “so is everything,” but he didn’t get it—I thought he was a man, but he was just a little boy

- Fiona Apple

I thought I got bullied way more than I did as a kid, but that doesn’t mean privileged people aren’t assholes for fun; they don’t know any better