Curse Quote by Albert Camus

“Squeezed against each other in the heavy heat, they were silent...looking toward the home that was expecting them--quiet, perspiring, resigned to this existence divided…

— Albert Camus

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

“Ultimately, the only thing that sometimes annoyed Marguerite was Jacques’s jealous temperament. ‘He wasn’t happy when he couldn’t reach me straightaway.”

— Benoît Peeters

“He was a typical workaholic, driven to succeed and willing to put in the hours to do so. It didn't leave much time for…

— Lynsay Sands

“I thought they were unemployed. They did not appear as unemployed on any record, but the actual unemployment in France and throughout Europe, was…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European readers. Misery…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“...on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.”

— Diane Setterfield

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

“It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don’t know our allotted span of days.”

— John Katzenbach

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“The day is short, the work is much, the workers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master is pressing.”

— Yosef Marcus

“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so…

— Leo Tolstoy