Excuse Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The situation suddenly felt absurd, and he had to control the urge to laugh out loud, the sheer folly of the midnight escapade catching…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“[…] knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep […], knowing he was unfair […], knowing all these things but unable to stop…

— Steven Erikson

“Though nothing much had happened, he felt that he had seen and experienced enough that day - thus securing his tomorrow. For today he…

— Peter Handke

“The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a…

— John Steinbeck

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to…

— Brian Falkner

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing…

— Neil Postman

“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of…

— Louise Erdrich

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread…

— Anonymous

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to…

— Charles Dickens

“There was present that night at Henley's, by right of propinquity or of accident, a man full of the secret spite of dullness, who…

— W. B. (William Butler) Yeats