Husband Quote by Marie Darrieussecq

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a…

— Charles Dickens

“In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with uncertainty, I learned to make peace with the present…

— Susan Abulhawa

“And when the weariness comes and the nights are sleepless, we will tell each other stories of heroism and hope. We will feed on…

— John Dolan

“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier…

— Hermann Hesse

“55 But I was born for peaceful roaming, For country calm and lack of strife; My lyre sings! And in the gloaming My fertile…

— Alexander Pushkin

“It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if…

— Donna Tartt

“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling of deprivation.…

— Hermann Hesse

“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose…

— John Grogan

“How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions…

— David K. Reynolds

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing—the unsolved, the painful encounters, the…

— Jane B. Burka

“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same…

— Maurice Druon