Important things Quote by Steven Erikson

“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

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“They were expressions of who he was and what he’d become, and he couldn’t do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his…

— Nick Hornby

“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings…

— George Eliot

“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“If his life depended on it, he had to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last drop of…

— Anonymous

“The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old,…

— Arnold Bennett

“But as he grew older he thought less of it, grew accustomed to the days lived. Each day he climbed the hill, as he…

— Paul Yoon

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better was lost. Or not lost,…

— Nicholas Eames

“He was one of those old people who give the impression of having undergone a lifetime trial by fire which they somehow managed to…

— Paule Marshall

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow