Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“A world of pure reason, he argued with himself, a world devoid of imaginative sentiment, must be a heartless, monotonous, loveless place. No, this…

— Jacob G. Rosenberg

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have…

— Paul Auster

“[The writer] doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it would never suit him. He wants an impossible…

— Henry Miller

“The world was not perfect. It was dark, evil, and full of monsters in human disguise. The world's a horrible place, ad you were…

— Natasha Preston

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful,…

— Jeremy Dyson

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

— Floriano Martins

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”

— Anonymous

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky