Quote by Barry Unsworth Download Open image ““There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.”” — Barry Unsworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
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“The words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do. Even the broken pieces are worth something to me.” — Ann E. Burg Copy Share Image
“The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“There is strength in numbers, yes, but even more so in collective good will. For those endeavors are supported by mighty forces unseen.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“None of us is less fragile than the other; we simply shatter in different places.” — Sheldon James Martin Copy Share Image
“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
