History Quote by Anonymous

“He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was…

— Kathleen Collins

“I could not help weeping with him - not over my own fate which, however clearly laid out, was just as sad as his,…

— Jean-Marie Deguignet

“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

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“He was part of us and when he died all the actions stopped dead, and there was no one to do them just the…

— Ray Bradbury

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He was training people to become “sacred warriors”—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders