Life Quote by Jack London

“We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.”

— Catherine Fisher

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's dinginess, it's…

— George Orwell

“For he possessed a soul that could suffer but not stifle, and led a steady life beneath his mutability.”

— E.M. Forster

“Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of…

— Adam Smith

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact…

— Robert Musil

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face…

— Joseph Conrad

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~”

— Marilynne Robinson