Quote by Sinclair Lewis Download Open image ““Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.”” — Sinclair Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go.… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond;… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.” — Glyn Iliffe Copy Share Image
“Being the exception was no longer a mysterious, special thing. I had become his weakness.” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“in the absence of real power blood seemed the only alternative. though he could walk away, and had to walk away, he could not… — Thomas Williams Copy Share Image
“It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.” — Bonnie Dee Copy Share Image
“I knew that no matter how hard I tried, he was the person that I was always going to run back to, and I… — Sparkling Amethyst Copy Share Image
“would be free from his enemies. After once reaching this,” — Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers Copy Share Image
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image