Life Quote by Paul Bowles

“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their…

— Jane Austen

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own…

— Haruki Murakami

“They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For…

— David Bergen

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton

“Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her.”

— Richie Singh

“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The following morning she realised they hated her. That hurt her feelings; she always preferred her hatred to be unreciprocated.”

— Joanna Kavenna

“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed…

— Jincy Willett

“She looked about her again, on her feet, at her scattered melancholy comrades -- some of them so melancholy as to be down on…

— Henry James

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder