Jest Quote by Jadwiga Sztaniskis

“Życie przeważnie jest smutne. A zaraz potem się umiera...”

— Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

“Sen jest najlepszym przyjacielem człowieka.”

— Andrzej Stasiuk

“Z morderstwem jest jak z życiem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.”

— Simon Beckett

“Nie - był. To jest śmierć - przejście od "jest" do "był".”

— Veronica Roth

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is…

— Al-Ghazali

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

— James Joyce

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals…

— Tom Brown, Jr

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

— David Foster Wallace

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest…

— Aristotle