Quote by John Steinbeck

“Behind the harrows, the long seeders—twelve curved iron penes erected in the foundry, orgasms set by gears, raping methodically, raping without passion. The driver…

— John Steinbeck

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“He worshipped the past with a strange fervour. It was, he liked to tell her, the weight all mankind was born to bear. The…

— Ryan Graudin

“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no recreation, and…

— John Steinbeck

“They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty…

— Susan Abulhawa

“The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by…

— Virgil

“Just now, high above the chaos of Sarantium, it seemed as if there were so many things he wanted to honour or exalt- or…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“He loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild beast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind,…

— Miguel De Cervantes

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini