Cold Quote by Jane Austen

“There was no other explanation for such an illness in a man otherwise so young and fit. It was the consequence of failing to…

— Philip Roth

“He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had…

— Edith Wharton

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore,…

— Anonymous

“The young man was sincerely but placidly in love. He delighted in the radiant good looks of his betrothed, in her health, her horsemanship,…

— Edith Wharton

“He wasn’t an immature boy having conjured up an image of a perfect relationship. He was a grown man ready to accept responsibility for…

— Konstantina P

“I believe that no man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. For such is our natural horror of death, that small…

— David Hume

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

— Josh Lanyon

So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their…

— Virginia Woolf

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real…

— Jane Austen

“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that…

— Philip Roth