Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is…

“Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak…

— Stendhal

“I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge…

— Stendhal

“Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?”

— Stendhal

“Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad…

— Stendhal

“I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further…

— Haruki Murakami

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose…

— Michael Ondaatje

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert…

— Amy Layne Litzelman

“A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. There is…

— Michael Ondaatje

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

— William Shakespeare

WE ARE HUMANS. WE ARE NOT PERFECT. WE ARE ALIVE. WE TRY THINGS. WE MAKE MISTAKES. WE STUMBLE. WE FALL. WE GET HURT. WE…

— Anonymous

It is called LIFE

— Mua

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except…

— Loren Eiseley

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hate not knowing when things are going to happen feeling different every single day. It is called LIFE…

— Stephanie Valdovinos