Life truths Quote by Ken Kesey

“The townsfolk in their darkened rooms were dazed as if by some cataclysm, some devastating earthquake, against which all wisdom and all resistance is…

— Guy de Maupassant

“My first recollection of that day was that early on the morning of September 17, we were all in the cellar with the mattresses…

— Carol Reardon

“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light…

— Leonce Patry

“Night blanketed weary men who fell asleep where they dropped on the trampled prairie grass, while around them other prostrate men from both armies…

— Howard Zinn

“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“It was 12:08 a.m. I had just six minutes to get to the top of the lighthouse. I took off running up the rocks,…

— Tabitha Freeman

“The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchants, psychos, ghouls. They could smell a funeral a mile…

— Rupert Thomson

“He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the…

— William Golding

“It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a…

— Mark Twain

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came…

— Stephen King