Goes on Quote by Stephen King

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

— Philip Roth

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

— Graham Greene

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

— Franz Kafka

“He gazed sadly at the threatening sky, at the burned-out remnants of a locust-plagued summer, and suddenly saw on the twig of an acacia,…

— László Krasznahorkai

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On…

— Samuel Johnson

What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?

— Tabitha Suzuma

He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not…

— Vladimir Nabokov

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what…

— Theodore Dreiser

He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Because what if you did let someone in? And what if they saw everything, and still walked away? Who could blame them—who would want…

— Sarah J. Maas

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must…

— Victor Hugo