Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Lisa Wingate

Quote by Lisa Wingate

Work

A Month of Summer

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Lisa Wingate

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Lisa Wingate. more

You May Also Like

“Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them.”

HappinessSufferingMisery
Book:Les Misérables
Create image

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”

LoveStoriesSexAdventureRacismShipsSexismUnrequited LoveNavySegregationCubaProstitutionOld DaysHomophobiaShort StoriesRite Of PassageHavanaSavannahShort Story Collection1950sHigh SeasDeep SouthPolitical IntrigueAdolescent Angst
Book:Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
Create image