Brutalities Quote by Saul Bellow

“he was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be -…

— Victor Hugo

“Fate could be viewed as sadistic at times.”

— Steven Redhead

“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

“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he…

— Ayana Mathis

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother…

— Truman Capote

“The person he'd hurt the most though, ultimately, was himself. It was his dreams that had come to nothing. His future that had folded…

— Tilly Bagshawe

“But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's…

— Ruth Frances Long

“playing upon his hopes and fears to reduce him to complete servility, certain to kill him if he broke away, and certain to kill…

— C.S. Lewis