Class status Quote by Anonymous

“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.”

— Paul Theroux

“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating…

— Marcel Proust

“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel external things,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“He thought of leaving for good every time he heard the long, mournful whistle of the train. He told me it's called wanderlust--that need…

— M.K. Asante

“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place and all…

— Veronica Roth

“All of my life, trains had been coming and going, interrupting Ever’s daily life with their loud disregard.”

— Matthew Aaron Goodman

“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished…

— Paul Theroux

“I listened long to your story, Listened but could not hear. When you chose to walk that path so overgrown, I remained alone with…

— Anne Elisabeth Stengl

“Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar…

— Martin Amis

“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“In the subway the trains move so swiftly you can never catch your breath. Outside the grimy window that’s a reflecting surface like a…

— Joyce Carol Oates