Clams Quote by Hubert Selby, Jr

“They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world...Not only…

— Hubert Selby Jr

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“They were falling back into familiarity, into common ground, into the dirty gray. Just ordinary humans in ordinary opaque boiled-egg light, without grace, without…

— Kiran Desai

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open,…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life…

— Anonymous

“They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their…

— Tove Jansson

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue…

— Virginia Woolf

“I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn…

— P.G. Wodehouse

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had…

— Bible

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them…

— Hermann Hesse

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most…

— Anonymous