Quote by Marcel Proust

“There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.”

— Bryant McGill

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory,…

— Charles Bukowski

“Some days I felt invincible, though I had to constantly remind myself that my delusions of invincibility were driven primarily by anger and stupidity.…

— Bobby Adair

“What could put comparisons, and envyings, and heart-burnings into their heads, so filling them either with conceit or melancholy misgivings? As if there was…

— Mrs. Alfred Gatty

“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently…

— André Aciman

“These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation.”

— J.D. Salinger

“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold

“And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.”

— Marcel Proust

“He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and…

— John Jakes