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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Change
He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.
W. W. Jacobs1863–1943The Monkey’s Paw (1902)In context
- Life & Death
- Luck
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)In context
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks.
Guy de Maupassant1850–1893The Necklace (1884)In context
- Luck
- Women
How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!
Guy de Maupassant1850–1893The Necklace (1884)In context
- Life & Death
- Luck
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 29 (1609)In context
- Emotion
- Luck
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
John Masefield1878–1967Cargoes (1903)In context
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Change
- Time
“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter IIIn context
Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Luck
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by EdmundIn context
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where’er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807)In context
- Change
- Nature
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context