Catastrophe Quote by Jess Walter

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little…

— Leo Tolstoy

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original…

— Don DeLillo

“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and…

— William Styron

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of…

— Ayn Rand

“Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope…

— Chris Dietzel

“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing they wanted…

— Malcolm Lowry

“He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“An anxious expression spread over his face as he thought to himself that the time was coming when he would have to give up…

— Jean Rhys

“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez