Acquaintance Quote by Hilaire Belloc

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone. Only after…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended…

— Susanna Clarke

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion…

— Philip K. Dick

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

— Anonymous

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing…

— Charles Lamb

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that…

— James Boswell

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an…

— Ray Bradbury