“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”
W. Somerset Maugham book The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 38, p. 129
“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”
W. Somerset Maugham book The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 38, p. 129
“Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.”
Martin Amis book London Fields
London Fields (1989)
“God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.”
Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled.”
Stanisław Lem book Imaginary Magnitude
Imaginary Magnitude" (1981), "Lecture XLIII", tr. Marc E. Heine (1984)
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"