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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), June Second, 1910 (2 of 4)In context
- Luck
- Time
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 1In context
To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731Robinson Crusoe (1719), Chapter XIIn context
- Change
- Emotion
There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Change
- Intelligence
‘Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.’
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
Diligence is the mother of good fortune
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part I, Chapter XLVIIn context
- Luck
- Work
Comparisons are odious
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter XXIIIIn context
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Change
- Character
But that is the beginning of a new story⁠—the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Epilogue, Chapter IIIn context
- Change
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours’ bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIIn context
- Luck
- War & Peace
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), PrefaceIn context
- Change
- History
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, Zarathustra’s PrologueIn context
- Change
- Inspiration
What’s done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene I, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by EdmundIn context
- Luck
- Responsibility