Function Quote by William Shakespeare

“There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation…

— James Joyce

“It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the…

— George Orwell

“My body is in a state of perpetual contradiction, alive with anticipation and simultaneously dead of all other emotion.”

— Alex Morel

“...the truth is that every murder case is, if not simple, capable of simplicity, and that this is not only necessary but breathtaking, that…

— Tana French

“He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the…

— Georges Simenon

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“My, how foolish I am!” my friend cries, suddenly alert, like a woman remembering too late she has biscuits in the over. “You know…

— Truman Capote

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which…

— Isaac Newton

“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty years: learning,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“These moments of intoxication, when we defy everything, when, the anchor raised, we go merrily toward the abyss, with no more thought for the…

— Georges Bataille

“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”

— Jasper Fforde