Bad memories Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”

— Denis Johnson

“and he took up his abode with one of his sons, enjoying, perhaps, as serene and happy an old age as ever fell to…

— Anonymous

“All he had to contend with now were his memories, which weren’t pretty. In prison, he’d managed to stave them off with dreams of…

— Jeremy Duns

“Looming visage noble American colonel. Courageous, renown of history, Colonel Sanders, image forever accompanied odor of sacrificial meat. Eternal flame offering wind savory perfume…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her service; and…

— Charles Dickens

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her…

— John Green

“I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch…

— Umberto Eco

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury…

— Mary Shelley

“The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret…

— John William Polidori

“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the kindest and…

— Eugene Asa Carr

“... History sometimes does know revenge, a sort of voluptuous and delayed justice, but chooses strange forms for it and unexpected executors of its will.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn