Grief Quote by Anne Carson

“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“His quick eyes seemed to miss nothing, and she couldn’t hide the motion of her fingers squeezing the fabric of her skirts. His gaze…

— Anne Mallory

“When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you…

— Charles Dickens

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she…

— Plutarch

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“... I opened the door to a knock and found a ashen-faced messenger quailing at the prospect of facing an undead witch who was,…

— Sara Poole

“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my…

— Louisa May Alcott

“His dark eyes were wide and beautiful, and his lips looked soft and very pink. It was irritating. Everything about the boy irritated him:…

— Alessandra Hazard

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in…

— William Gaddis

“He leaned over Augustus to look at me and through tightly strung vocal cords said, “She didn’t want to do it after.” “She didn’t…

— John Green