Dusk Quote by John Berryman

“I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me…

— James Joyce

“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you…

— Jane Austen

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too…

— Lorrie Moore

“Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a…

— Susan Hill

“For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in which to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“that there is a certain twenty-four-hours-a-day relentlessness to caring for young children that makes it hard to think straight.”

— Joanna Faber

“When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when I grew…

— Karleen Koen

“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know,…

— Mark Twain

“And many a day's hours were like that. As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere in order to torment it slowly with needles. I…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I was twenty-four, but even then I led the gloomy, disorganized, solitary existence of a recluse. I stayed away from people, avoided even speaking…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky