Men Quote by Tim O'Brien

The things men did or felt they had to do.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”

— Allegra Goodman

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved…

— Nell Freudenberger

“They saw him as he was, a full man whose griefs and solaces and talents ran together.”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“For a moment, I felt sorry for him. The pain and disappointment of his life hung about him like a cloak. It permeated the…

— Evette Davis

“We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves we…

— Emma Cline

(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to…

— Kevin Henkes

“Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting…

— Roderic Jeffries

“I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It felt like he´d taken a piece of her heart with him in his carry-on luggage”

— Sarra Manning