Time Quote by Walter Kirn

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and…

— Peter Ackroyd

“And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part of all…

— Earnest Poole

“He was travel stained, unkempt, and very tired, but his soul was at peace.”

— David Lindsay

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information…

— Paulette Jiles

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

— Charles Dickens

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell…

— James Burnham