Confidence Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke…

— Julia Quinn

“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity. In self-defense,…

— Steven Erikson

“He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He…

— Kathleen Koen

“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“They will not struggle energetically against him, sometimes they will even applaud him; but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the…

— D.H. Lawrence

“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces every day.…

— Kien Nguyen

“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had…

— Gabriel García Márquez