Disturbance Quote by John Connolly

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“He felt as if he were under an intolerable physical strain, as if his body were likely at any moment to fly to pieces.…

— Iris Murdoch

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European readers. Misery…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He…

— Anonymous

“A trouble — nothing as beautiful as a sorrow — rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank.”

— E.M. Forster

“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