Haggard Quotes

“In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season

“You see—I hope you never get there yourself—but some of us get to the point in life where we realise that nothing matters. Nothing fucking matters.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“Tamlin answered the door himself.

I wasn't sure what to remark on: the haggard male before me, or the dark house behind him.

An easy mark. Too easy of a mark, to mock the once-fine clothes desperate for a wash, the shaggy hair that needed a trim. The empty manor, not a servant in sight, no Solstice decorations to be found.

The green eyes that met mine weren't the ones I was accustomed to, either. Haunteed and bleak. Not a spark.

It would be a matter of minutes to fillet him, body and soul. To finish what had undoubtedly started that day Feyre had called out silently at their wedding, and I had come.

But- peace. We had peace within our sights.

I could rip him apart after we'd attained it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight