Category: Quotes

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Macbeth 124 Out, damned spot! out, I say! William Shakespeare Macbeth 124 God made food; the devil the cooks. James Joyce Ulysses 124 Together we understood what terror was: you’re not…

The harmonious man, it needs to be said, hardly exists at all; out of many tens, even hundreds of thousands perhaps one or two at most are encountered, and even then in rather feeble versions. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 3 She saw her sitting with her son in the window and the cloud moving…

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 36 People love the idea of a paper girl.…

“Things usually work out in the end.” “What if they don’t?” “That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.” The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 1100 You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.…