Ivan Ilyich Quotes

#1. The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible. Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!

Leo Tolstoy

#2. and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With

Leo Tolstoy

#3. As we medical students saw it, the failure of those around Ivan Ilyich to offer comfort or to acknowledge what is happening to him was a failure of character and culture.

Atul Gawande

#4. You're mine now."

-Marcus to Lillian

Lisa Kleypas

#5. I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

David Liss

#6. I've said my patience is not infinite.

Darrell Issa

#7. Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

Jean De La Fontaine

#9. There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Fredrik Bajer

#10. The horror was this: the others.

Anne Rice