Confidence Quote by Thomas Mann

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth…

— Brandon Sanderson

“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,…

— John Gardner

“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities…

— Victor Hugo

“It seems to me that if there were such a man, for example, as would seize a red-hot bar of iron and clutch it…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as…

— George Orwell

“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about it. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good…

— Leo Tolstoy

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London