Novelist Evelyn Waugh Quotes & Sayings

We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair
when our words are empty. — Jill Bialosky

When things go wrong, they can get ugly. But they don't have to be uglier than they already are, right? — Jeremiah Stevens

The pain is physical, but the pleasure emotional. — Al Daltrey

I need to be touched emotionally and physically. — Amanda Mosher

Nathanael hadn't delivered any specific message; the angel's parting words, which had boomed out across the entire visitation site, were the typical Behold the power of the Lord. Of the eight casualties that day, three souls were accepted into Heaven and five were not, a closer ratio than the average for deaths by all causes. Sixty-two people received medical treatment for injuries ranging from slight concussions to ruptured eardrums to burns requiring skin grafts. Total property damage was estimated at $8.1 million, all of it excluded by private insurance companies due to the cause. Scores of people became devout worshipers in the wake of the visitation, either out of gratitude or terror. Alas, — Ted Chiang

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another. — Emanuel Celler

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

I can't say for sure if I'm better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could have traveled to exotic places and kissed exotic men in the moonlight. Or I could have ended living alone in a dumpy apartment with the flesh eating virus I contracted from a public toilet. Could haves are always a great unknown. — Anna White

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them. — Douglas Sirk

Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth. — Benjamin Graham

Self-confidence and self-courage are your greatest strengths. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is divine chaos. — Jillian Dodd