Universal Quotes

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As a writer one doesnâ€™t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society… — William Trevor
Suffering is universal. itâ€™s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. — John Green
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and… — Annie Ernaux
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two… — Beryl Markham
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the… — Wilfred Owen
Thatâ€™s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they… — Rachel Cohn
He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal… — P.D. James
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know… — James A. Baldwin
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their… — Jonathan Edwards
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be… — David Sedaris
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent… — Osamu Dazai
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a… — Marcel Proust
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had… — Victor Hugo
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to… — Charles Dickens
it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into… — Franz Kafka
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not… — James Lee Burke
How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping… — Judy Blundell

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