Age Quote by Toni Morrison

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

“His feeling of having crashed did not consist of envy, exactly, or even entirely of having outlived himself. It was more like despair about…

— Jonathan Franzen

“But with all their mocking they had only hardened his resolve. And the odd thing was, they took a perverse pleasure in it, as…

— Brenda Rickman Vantrease

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might…

— Upton Sinclair

In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and…

— William Carey

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their…

— H. G. Wells

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the…

— Anonymous

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and…

— David Wong

“They believed their words. Everybody shows a respectful deference to certain sounds that he and his fellows can make. But about feelings people really…

— Joseph Conrad

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could…

— Edgar Allan Poe

This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward…

— Dante Alighieri