He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldnt, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. – Ivo Andric