Focus Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

— Charles Dickens

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

— Shawn Davis

“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

“Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was…

— Edith Wharton

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber

“He snorted softly. His talent had destroyed everything he had ever valued. With a shake of his head, he moved his thoughts away from…

— Mitchell Hogan

“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

— William Faulkner

“But he was too good to be thoroughly unhappy long.”

— Emily Brontë

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing…

— Chris Nicolaisen