Quotes Tagged With :welt

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth....

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression....

Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne....

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest....

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial....

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual,....

Human life is fiction's only theme.

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's....

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how....

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used....