Character Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace, I cannot…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin…

— Pascal Garnier

“Ever since we were expelled from paradise, we have either been suffering, making other people suffer or watching the suffering of others”

— Paulo Coelho

“The cruelty of this world casts a spell on the innocents, and together we will punish those who do not know the beauty that…

— Casey Hill

“There is absolutely no experience, however terrible, or heartbreaking, or unjust, or cruel, or evil, which you can meet in the course of your…

— Hannah Hurnard

“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience some of…

— Marcel Proust

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

“After slipping on a negligee and making herself comfortable on the lounge, she became conscious that she was miserable and that the tears were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.”

— Victor Hugo

“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need…

— Steven Erikson

“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a tyrant; a…

— Ronald Carter