Affection Quote by Jack London

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had…

— Thomas Hardy

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to receive, but…

— William Somerset Maugham

...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on…

— Hermann Hesse

“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was…

— Winston Graham

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell