"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
― William Lyon Phelps
Topic(s):
Life
More From William Lyon Phelps
- "The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
- "Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
- "If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
More In Life
- "To be free is to have achieved your life."― Tennessee Williams
- "There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."― Henry David Thoreau
- "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."― Rabindranath Tagore