Daily Inspiration Quote by Edgar Watson Howe

A newsroom man’s fatalism lands harder than a philosopher’s, because it’s earned in deadlines, court dockets, and the long memory of small-town scandal. Edgar Watson Howe isn’t offering comfort; he’s stripping comfort away with a line that sounds like a proverb and behaves like a verdict. “Everyone suffers wrongs” opens with democratic bluntness: no heroic exceptions, no moral accounting that exempts the virtuous. Then he twists the knife: “for which there is no remedy.” Not “no apology,” not “no punishment,” but no fix. The sentence refuses the modern belief that every harm can be processed into closure if we just find the right institution, lawsuit, or self-help protocol.

The intent is corrective. Editors of Howe’s era lived amid boosterism and moral crusades, selling progress while watching lives get bent by poverty, illness, gossip, and sheer bad luck. His line punctures the American habit of treating pain as a solvable glitch in the system. The subtext is anti-romance: injustice isn’t always legible, and even when it is, it’s not always reversible. That’s not a call to passivity so much as a warning against the false promise that the world will balance its books.

What makes it work is the cold economy of it: “wrongs” is broad enough to include betrayal, misfortune, and structural cruelty; “no remedy” is clinical, almost medical, implying a wound that can be managed but not cured. Howe gives you the unglamorous truth an editor learns early: some stories end, but they don’t resolve.