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- Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1797
- To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick, 1851
- He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
- It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
- J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), Anthropologist (1901-1978)
- Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
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