“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
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Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Life's a match in a gas tank. Don't ever mourn the ebbing tide.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
“He asks from men all that he has in himself, though even lions would not claim to match that.”
Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) Arabic poet from the Abbasid era
From the poem "To Sayf Al-Dawla" http://web.archive.org/web/20140708175325/http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/al_mu_to_sayf.html
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 155
David D. Levine (1961) science fiction writer
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 3, “Seeking Passage” (p. 46)
“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”
Maria Edgeworth book Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent, "Continuation of the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 46.
“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
William Shockley (1910–1989) American physicist and inventor
As quoted in The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow (1989) by Fred Warshofsky, p. 21.
