Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. (Quote by - Joseph De Maistre)

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. (Quote by - John Milton)

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this Town, where this lusty Fair is kept; and he that will go to the City, and yet not go through this Town, must needs go out of the World. (Quote by - John Bunyan)

Necessity never made a good bargain. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Men are of necessity so mad, that not to be mad were madness in another form (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Necessity is often the spur to genius. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

Without death and decay, how could life go on? (Quote by - John Burroughs)

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

Invention is the mother of necessity. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity. (Quote by - Socrates)

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. (Quote by - Charles Andre Joseph de Gaulle)

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Teach thy necessity to reason thus: There is no virtue like necessity. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Necessity is stronger far than art. (Quote by - Aeschylus)