Life Quote by Joseph Heller

“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

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge…

— Roland Merullo

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged…

— Jack Kerouac

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched…

— Lorrie Moore

“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“It had not occurred to him how he must appear to an outsider, to the world. For a moment he saw himself as he…

— John Williams