Humor Quote by Susanna Clarke

“What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like dead things, and the…

— Iris Murdoch

“All it took was a chance meeting with a stranger, some unexpected conversation. A few moments of kindness from someone who had no inkling…

— Lara Adrian

“Oh, how I've envied the lives of those who could spend life sitting down. A place to sit, a place to sit! I'd lament,…

— Wolfgang Hilbig

“This is torment for me, Eva. I can’t focus. I can’t sleep. I lose my temper at the slightest irritants. I’m in hell without…

— Sylvia Day

“Eternity is a frightfully long time to spend alone.”

— P.S. Clinen

“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get…

— Helen Garner

“I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumoured and evilly shadowed seaport of death and blasphemous abnormality.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“It’s not one of our finest hours.”

— Brian Cook

“Time: life’s inexorable weapon of humiliation.”

— Shawn Davis

“What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...”

— Hilaire Belloc

“I had the patience to sit like a fool with these people, listening to them for four hours on end, and never daring say…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The evenings were the worst. I stood at the window of my hotel room and looked at the traffic and the thousands of little…

— Herman Koch