Quotes & Sayings About The Setting In A Lesson Before Dying

Medication can help us live a happier life. — Carnie Wilson

But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be. — Patrick Suskind

[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others, — H.G.Wells

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end. — Diego Maradona

It's terrible sometimes, inside," he said, "that's what's the trouble. You walk these streets, black and funky and cold, and there's not really a living ass to talk to, and there's nothing shaking, and there's no way of getting it out- that storm inside. You can't talk it and you can't make love with it, and when you finally try to get with it and play it, you realize nobody's listening. So you've got to listen. You got to find a way to listen. — James Baldwin

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense. — A. C. Bradley

We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie. — Walter De La Mare

If you're still waiting for it, it mean you're not yet ready for it ... whatever "it" is ... so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation! — Mandy Hale

Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation. — Barry Marshall

Adam!' said Danny. 'You mustn't drop out of the choir. We have too much to do. What do we have to do? — Dorothy Dunnett

Baseball is a man maker. — Al Spalding