Quote by Franz Kafka

“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.”

— Charles Dickens

“Maybe all of life was just a giant struggle-a giant, beautiful, complicated struggle-and those who hurt the ones they loved the least were the…

— Shelbi Wescott

“They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world...Not only…

— Hubert Selby Jr

“Some of the greatest victories in life begin with being faithful in the small things.”

— Leif Hetland

“Up to then, the joy of fulfilling, perhaps over-fulfilling, their duty had kept them in a state of exultation. Such a state is close…

— Alexandre Dumas, pere

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors—and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the illusory ties…

— Henri Barbusse

“So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.”

— Marcel Proust

“They were all there.And all of them,these days,were as if drunk with bitterness,from desire for vengeance and longed to punish and to kill whomsoever…

— Ivo Andrić

“After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given…

— Marlene Van Niekerk