“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Sense of an Ending
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“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand
Source: Fool's Errand
“… perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”
Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist
Variant: Saying goodbye is a little like dying.
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
Mary Karr book The Liars' Club
Source: The Liars' Club
“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
David Benioff book City of Thieves
Source: City of Thieves
“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”
Ben Bova (1932) American science fiction and science writer
Source: Millennium
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
Rex Stout book The Rubber Band
Source: The Rubber Band
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
“Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
Source: Giovanni's Room
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Variant: The human heart... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems