Action Quote by Patrick Ness

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you…

— Jonathan Stroud

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half…

— Anonymous

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people…

— Steven Erikson

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment.…

— Jonathan Franzen

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

— Philip Roth

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad…

— Leo Tolstoy

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

— James Beattie

“He had told us then that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level…

— Ernest J. Gaines

“But with all their mocking they had only hardened his resolve. And the odd thing was, they took a perverse pleasure in it, as…

— Brenda Rickman Vantrease