Life Quote by Cyril Connolly

“I began to think that he had just the right measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life to be someone I could get along…

— Catherine Lacey

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he…

— John Burnside

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.”

— Pat Conroy

“In so many ways he’d lived like he would live forever. He’d taken his time for granted on one hand and simultaneously not fully…

— Tim McBain

“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…

— Milan Kundera

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

“He first felt old when there was no one left alive who remembered what he was like when he was a baby.”

— Barry Smolin