Life Quote by Amor Towles

“Having acknowledged that a man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the Count thought it worth considering how one was…

— Amor Towles

“He’d just been awarded his master’s degree, and he was more or less pure hearted and well intentioned; his actions and decisions were dictated…

— Grant Ginder

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman

“Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?”

— R.A. Salvatore

“A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he only ought to consider whether he…

— John Steinbeck

“He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success…

— Stephen R. Covey

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people…

— Albert Camus

“such thoughts had often knocked for entrance, but had always been excluded for the very good reason that if they were once entertained it…

— C.S. Lewis

“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my…

— Albert Camus

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.”

— Albert Camus

“Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the…

— Ayn Rand