Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact.… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“… It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and… — Kane Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
