Buts Quotes (page 731)
![Barbara Kingsolver quote: "What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but..."](/pic/381792/600x316/quotation-barbara-kingsolver-what-we-suffered-in-our-lives-we-went.jpg)
A Little Fable"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must ...
Franz Kafka
whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one; though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays.
Thomas Hardy
![Geoffrey Chaucer quote: "And once he had got really drunk on wine, Then he would speak..."](/pic/381770/600x316/quotation-geoffrey-chaucer-and-once-he-had-got-really-drunk-on-wine-then.jpg)
Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by suicide? Only because the living must bury the dead? Because of the measured rites that must be fulfilled after a death? Because it is as though the one who is left steps for a time upon a stage and each second swells to an unlimited amount of time and he is watched by many eyes? Because there is a function he must carry out? Or perhaps, when there is love, the widowed must stay for the...
Carson McCullers
![Franz Kafka quote: "The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives..."](/pic/381753/600x316/quotation-franz-kafka-the-fact-that-there-is-nothing-but-a-spiritual.jpg)
![L. M. Montgomery quote: "I feel sorry now myself,” admitted Davy, “but the trouble is I..."](/pic/381749/600x316/quotation-l-m-montgomery-i-feel-sorry-now-myself-admitted-davy-but.jpg)