Author: Michel de Montaigne

Cited by

• Thomas Bernhard (1)
  • IN: Extinction (1986) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: I feel death ever pinching me by the throat, or pulling me by the back.
    FROM: Essays, (1580), Book, France
• Aidan Higgins (1)
  • IN: Darkling Plain (2010) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I speak about myself in diverse way: that is because I look at myself in diverse ways.
    FROM: Essays translated and edited by M.A. Screech, (1992), Essay, France
• Eric Hoffer (1)
  • IN: Reflections on the Human Condition (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himselff.
    FROM: on solitude, (1580), Essay, France
• Michelle K. Pickett (1)
  • IN: Unspeakable (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Cat Patrick (1)
  • IN: Forgotten (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Andrew Hilleman (1)
  • IN: World, Chase Me Down (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
    FROM: The Essays, (1580), Book, France
• Rose Tremain (2)
  • IN: The Gustav Sonata (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If anyone should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could not otherwise be expressed than by making the answer, "Because it was he, because it was I".
    FROM: On Friendship, (1580), Book, France
• Andrew Pepper (1)
  • IN: Kill-Devil And Water (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
    FROM: Essays, (1580), Book, France
• Andrew Greig (1)
  • IN: Fair Helen (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have gathered a garland of other men's flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.
    FROM: Essays, (1580), Book, France
• Clare Clark (1)
  • IN: Savage Lands (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Every man calls barbarous anything he is not accustomed to; it is indeed the case that we have no other criterion of truth or right-reason than the example and form of the opinions and customs of our own country. Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
    FROM: On the Cannibals, (1580), Essay, France
• Andrew Swanston (1)
  • IN: The King's Spy (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Alex Chance (1)
  • IN: Savage Blood (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone calls brutality what he is not accustomed to.
    FROM: Essay, 1, 31., (1580), Essay, France
• Robin Cook (1)
  • IN: Crisis (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The laws of conscience which we say are born of nature, are born of custom.
    FROM: The Essays of Montaigne, (1580), Essay, France
• Sarah Perry (1)
  • IN: The Essex Serpent (2016) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
    FROM: On Friendship, (1580), Book, France