Conscience Quote by Adelheid Manefeldt

“I had no idea what the future held or what waited for me at the end of this grueling journey and yet, somehow, I…

— Leigh Bardugo

“His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory - if anyone remembered him.”

— James Joyce

“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on…

— George Orwell

“That’s my whole trouble. I don’t seem capable of living for the moment. It’s as if the future threw back a shadow—a great black…

— Lynne Reid Banks

“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live.…

— Robin Hobb

“For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again…

— Alice McDermott

“He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his…

— Julie Orringer

“But I was not quite with him in my thoughts, and I wonder whether that is how we got to be after living alone…

— Per Petterson

“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know what to…

— D.H. Lawrence

“It was in the waiting that a person experienced too much of himself. Memories, doubts, regrets, anxieties, the whole range of possibilities the future…

— Justin Cronin

“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear…

— Haruki Murakami