Absurd Quote by Sinclair Lewis

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he…

— Raymond Weaver

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

— Voltaire

“This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never…

— Robin Hobb

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

— Joseph Heller

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love…

— Anita Shreve

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him…

— James Joyce

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“The madness with which suffering was dispersed in the world defied logic.”

— Alice McDermott

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson