Gloomy Quote by Henning Mankell

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay

“He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just as had…

— Patrick Süskind

“He's old now. He goes about gathering up the women who loved him and getting a kick out of their consternation and vague distress.…

— Enid Bagnold

“We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world filled us…

— Mark Lawrence

“Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something. When life was…

— Chelsea Fine

“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time- Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks In the blank skin of things, and died…

— Anonymous

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly…

— Chris Cleave

“After a lifetime spent in earnest earnest then what? After chasing after just such, it would have grinned even wider, if old corpses could……

— George Wier

“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.”

— Toba Beta

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“Everybody dies, but some spend a whole life digging their grave.”

— Shon Mehta

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind