Quote by Marcel Proust

“He took the risk and his people had died. He blamed himself. It didn't reflect in his face, but I saw it in his…

— Ilona Andrews

“He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and…

— Marcel Proust

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless…

— Ayn Rand

“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized,…

— J.K. Rowling

“He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed…

— Shirley Hazzard

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's…

— Ruth Frances Long

“Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent…

— Walter Terry

“Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in, of their…

— Edith Wharton

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton