Art Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed…

— Hermann Hesse

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“He lay on his back, watching the great river of stars wash across the sky. Worlds above, worlds below. It made him feel very…

— James R. Sanford

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“He'd read that once in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in…

— Anonymous

“Every man and woman he saw, even at a distance, gave him a twist of panic. But he had already grown used to that;…

— V.S. Naipaul

“He felt more cheerful, revived by the journey, released from himself and his poor life, uplifted by thoughts of the infinite.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty…

— Elizabeth Strout

“He wandered aimlessly. The sun was setting. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman