Abraham Quote by Bill Oberst Jr

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could…

— Bruce Catton

“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is…

— Philip K. Dick

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln”

— Peter Atkins

“Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people…

— Michael Beschloss

“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so…

— Katherine Lowry Logan

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that…

— Elton Trueblood

“Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Evil took many faces, many of them benign. It just wasn’t always apparent. Lincoln”

— J.T. Ellison

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

— H. P. Lovecraft