Fiction-and-literature Quote by Carey Jane Clark Download Open image ““All the words he'd stored up had tumbled into the great chasm beneath them”” — Carey Jane Clark ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction-and-literature Inspirational
“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share
“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some… — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into… — R. W. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“For every man there are certain words that are as if closer and more intimate to him than any others. And often, unexpectedly, in some remote, forsaken backwater, some deserted desert, one meets a man whose warming conversation makes you forget the pathlessness of your paths, the homelessness of your nights, and the contemporary world full of people's stupidity, of… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share
“All the words he used in the beginning were gutter words. He heard them and stored them in his brain. Now, as I walk… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.” — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
“He understood the impact of his question, his words falling like stones into a shadowy lake—on the surface things return to normal, but in… — Shades of Gray Copy Share Image
“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something. But he had only to forget the artificial train of reasoning, and to turn from life itself to what had satisfied him while thinking… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that i had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment, a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“old instincts rose up hard like a bowl of bad diner chili an hour down the road” — Carey Jane Clark Copy Share Image
“Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds" ~Vianka Van Bokkem” — Vianka Van Bokkem Copy Share Image
