Careless Quote by Various

“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”

— Marcus Aurelius

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle,…

— John Bunyan

“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious…

— Samuel Beckett

“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.”

— Anthony Trollope

“You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.”

— Jane Austen

“I was glad to have the opportunity, but now I am glad to be rid of it. The constant violence, or the impending threat…

— Chris Onstad

“I’m used to seducing and then killing men when they are at their most vulnerable. Tonight, though, it is me who is fighting the…

— Josie Brown

“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble…

— Edmund Burke

“every man has his mission, which is to leave the world better, in some way, than he found it.”

— L. Frank Baum

“Oh he was like them, like those laced-up ladies—warm from wards. A man, he still chewed the nipple, titillation, and risked no freer, deeper…

— William H. Gass

“Your soul once sat on an easel on my knee. For ages I hve been sketching you With myriad shapes of sounds and light;…

— شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez