Appreciate Quote by Anonymous

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do –…

— Barbara Savage

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his…

— Ernst Mach

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“For as long as he could remember he had never ceased to wonder why, having arms and legs like everyone else, and a language…

— Boris Pasternak

“he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.”

— Michael Wolff

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know…

— Joseph Conrad

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams