Accidents Quote by Katherine Boo

“Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life. Quite the…

— Victor Hugo

“In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for…

— Colson Whitehead

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Life, consciousness, self-awareness, he decided in that moment, amounted to a remarkable gift bestowed upon those fortunate enough to have been born. It had…

— G.F. Gustav

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

— Robin Hobb

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

— Ann Patchett

He tried the luxury of doing good.

— George Crabbe