Faith Quote by Michel Houellebecq

“This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no…

— Anthony Doerr

“While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the…

— Peter Singer

“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by…

— Louis Auchincloss

“The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial influence on…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting, spirited critic,…

— Honoré de Balzac

“With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.”

— Eric Maisel

“But, at that point, all Jeanie had was the will to construct a new life, even if that meant forcing intangible aspects of it…

— Kathleen Shoop

“All he had left was his alcohol and his resentment, the emotion that, Jean Améry would write, “nails every one of us onto the…

— Laura Hillendbrand

“In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a…

— David Nicholls