Travails Crossword Quotes & Sayings

One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven. — Victor Hugo

Our lives now are an internship for the eschaton. — Russell D. Moore

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. — Colin Firth

All beasts are happy,
For, when they die,
Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;
But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell.
Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me!
No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven. — Christopher Marlowe

I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery. — Marisha Pessl