Things happen fora reason Quote by Horace Walpole

“I look like hell.” He stood before her, angling his body away so that the burned side of his face still faced the stairs…

— Katy Regnery

And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His…

— William Shakespeare

“I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in the face…

— Anne Rice

“If I walked too far and wondered loud enough the fields would change. I could look down and see horse corn and I could…

— Alice Sebold

“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ, no tears.…

— John Hawkes

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I…

— John William Polidori

“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that…

— Patricia Storace

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his…

— Charles Dickens

“He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— "Have a care of the manner…

— Victor Hugo

“Pathetic mortal,” the reaper sneered. “You disgust me, speaking of death so cavalierly yet cowering at a pale shadow of its visage. You don't…

— Christopher Kai