Introversion Quote by Boris Pasternak

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature,…

— Boris Pasternak

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say,…

— Shirley Jackson

“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was…

— Anne Hillman

“I was seeking within myself the human being I had so long lost sight of, hoping that my passion had only been distorted but…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to…

— Steven Millhauser

“One conceals oneself standing silently beside the trunk of a tree and what there is of a reflective tendency in his nature is intensified.…

— Sherwood Anderson

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot