1932 Quote by Mary Butts

“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as…

— H.G. Wells

“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

“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”

— Confucius

“Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath.”

— George R.R. Martin

“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.”

— Glyn Iliffe

“He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary.”

— Tove Jansson

“All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.”

— Milan Kundera

“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.”

— George Orwell

“I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My…

— Jane Austen

“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas