Cold-comfort Quote by Hermann Hesse

“After all,' he said, “I suppose there are things that nothing can kill and that remain forever intact. It’s as if nothing could ever…

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“In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how much he…

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“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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“It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the…

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“What is the most amazing thing about the world? 'Every day creatures die, yet the rest live as if immortal.”

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“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on…

— George Orwell

“struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was…

— Terry Pratchett

“And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow, so that when his dog died the world ended.”

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— Haruki Murakami

“Knew what it was to loose him. That specific being. that unique and miraculous collision of biology and history, spirit and matter.”

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