Hope Quote by Sean Stewart

“There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone,…

— James Salter

“He didn’t want to be this thin man whose desires were barely covered by skin, standing absolutely still. But everytime he moved there was…

— Stephen Dunn

“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from…

— Haruki Murakami

“Not a lot of flesh was left on my bones. This flesh sufficed only for malice, the last human feeling to go. Not indifference…

— Varlam Shalamov

“He was dead. No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.”

— Prerna Varma

“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The…

— Ryu Murakami

“No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we…

— Albert Camus

“He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.”

— Ian McEwan

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

— Imre Kertész

“... he had never once been frightened of a living one before. They were too fragile, too easily broken and dismantled: They had bones…

— Lauren Oliver

“Man will change nothing of his final destiny, which is to return sooner or later to the unconscious and the formless.”

— Henry Miller