Ancient Quote by Anne Tyler

“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics and malnutrition.…

— Haruki Murakami

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping…

— Virginia Woolf

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to…

— Luther Standing Bear

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism;…

— Charles Dickens

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years…

— Henry David Thoreau

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many…

— C. S. Lewis

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the…

— Elliott White Springs

Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms.…

— Anthony Horowitz

The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a…

— William H. Gass

But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither…

— Samuel Johnson