Quote by Padgett Powell Download Open image ““the levity of the doomed has no equal.”” — Padgett Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.” — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind of man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Death is a Predator, It preys on the Weak and the Helpless.” — Zachary T. P. Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.” — Ondrelique C. Ouellette Copy Share Image
“sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its… — James Williams Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.… — padgett powell Copy Share Image
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
