Collectives Quote by Albert Camus

“The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and the chosen,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every…

— George Saunders

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to…

— Albert Pike

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a…

— Orson Scott Card

They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared.”

— Albert Camus

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed every person…

— George Saunders

We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

— Paul the Apostle

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren…

— Arthur Golden

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only…

— Richard Matheson

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in…

— Leo Tolstoy