Life Quote by Wallace Stegner

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love…

— Henry Miller

“For one day as I leant over a gate that led into a field, the rhythm stopped: the rhymes and the hummings, the nonsense…

— Virginia Woolf

“Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you…

— Samuel R. Delany

“We were quite naturally unhappy; feeling a definite need, unbearably keen at moments, which was never to be satisfied. But that was recognizable pain,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own…

— Anne Brontë

“Don't we all discover, at some stage or another that there are some things we'll never get any better at, even though we have…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely felt the want of that information which those hours…

— Merriweather Lewis

“As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not…

— Joseph Conrad