Life Quote by James Joyce

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“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

“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

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better was lost. Or not lost,…

— Nicholas Eames

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

“And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.”

— Anne Carson

“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no…

— Colm Tóibín

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“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