everything in the room felt eerily advanced and ancient at…

“It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt water, she…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

— Weegee

“Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction… She imagined to herself that she would always live this way,…

— Louise Fitzhugh

“Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”

— Laini Taylor

Have you been in a crowded room, but felt like you were alone? Have you ever felt like a puzzle with missing pieces? Have…

— Anonymous

“The group sat in silence, absorbing the information. The whole room felt cramped. It was as though there were something else in the cellar…

— Bella Forrest

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

— Gautama Buddha

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect…

— Laozi

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

— Helen Garner

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,…

— Confucius

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita