The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A demon's professional failing is liking the people he's meant to ruin.

He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

Good Omens · Terry Pratchett

What a storm looks like to the one person aboard not frightened of it.

Phileas Fogg, with body erect and legs wide apart, standing like a sailor, gazed without staggering at the swelling waters. The young woman, who was seated aft, was profoundly affected as she looked out upon the ocean, darkening now with the twilight, on which she had ventured in so frail a vessel. Above her head rustled the white sails, which seemed like great white wings. The boat, carried forward by the wind, seemed to be flying in the air.

Around the World in Eighty Days · Jules Verne

Κι αν ο πόλεμος είναι παγετώνας που κανένα βιβλίο δεν μπορεί να μετακινήσει;

“You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?” “No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?” “I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too. And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

Slaughterhouse-Five · Kurt Vonnegut