Dead Quote by Anonymous

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in every century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what the lives…

— Neil Gaiman

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.”

— Ovid

“In so speaking they saw further than the flesh. In their remorse and disgust it was not mere physical disillusionment that so crushed them.…

— Henri Barbusse

“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform…

— Victor Hugo

“He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— "Have a care of the manner…

— Victor Hugo