Bickering Quote by Anonymous

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well…

— James Payn

“hungry spirits so that cattle and crops would not be damaged. The nearness of the spirits meant that all sorts of secrets could be…

— Frank McNally

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The early breeze sighing among the foliage, that waved high over the path, and the hollow dashing of distant waters, he listened to with…

— Ann Radcliffe

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

That sadness of something that was once so sweet, sunny and quixotic and then it turns to cold, bitterness and silence.

— Sophie Lianne

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might…

— Upton Sinclair

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

— Alain Resnais

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a…

— Anonymous

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you…

— Terry Pratchett

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an…

— Emile Zola