Aliens Quote by Charles Bukowski

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world;…

— Jane Austen

“For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal…

— Eusebius of Caesarea

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their…

— Anonymous

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked…

— John Galsworthy

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The Contract had an air of esoteric mysticism when it covered topics related to the universe’s deepest secrets, yet it was gratuitously specific regarding…

— J. Zachary Pike

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort…

— Julien Gracq

“The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man;”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He had no aversion to me, is how I might put it. Or rather, he had once had such an aversion, still bore traces…

— George Saunders