Life Quote by Edward Gibbon

“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose edges were…

— William Faulkner

“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister…

— Mervyn Peake

“And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?”

— Naomi Novik

“The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them”

— Shri Radhe Maa

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him…

— Albert Einstein

“The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens

The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end…

— Edward Gibbon

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith