One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety
Mark Twain
Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Notebooks
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Anaïs Nin
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Søren Kierkegaard
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View
Mark Twain