Ulysses Quote by James Joyce

“I loathe the grading of tragedy and the jostling for pre-eminence amongst the bereaved, that most disgusting example of the disgusting habit of claiming…

— Catriona McPherson

“He wanted to meet her for the first time, over and over...He told himself the story that this was the great tragedy of his…

— Zadie Smith

“He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we…

— Neil Gaiman

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.”

— Jean Hegland

“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who is forced…

— Sándor Márai

“i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace.…

— Anne Rice

“Why couldn’t people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets like dirty…

— Mary Campisi

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The sadist in him loved knowing that he’d used her for his pleasure, while also expressing his disappointment in her, whereas, the man who…

— Josie Leigh

“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political…

— Marcel Proust