Respect Quote by Jill Thrussell

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted…

— Anna Kavan

“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

“He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups together. There…

— Hanif Kureishi

“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged…

— George Orwell

“This was not the way to think things out for himself, and that was what he had to do. Take each piece of happening…

— Kate Seredy

“He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart--fear for her, for…

— Shana Abé

“He sobbed no longer playing the part of her savior, but playing the part of a lover begging for another chance, a man who…

— Inger Iversen

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the…

— John Martel

“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was his last…

— Sean Norris