Absent Quote by Charles Robert Maturin

“Thus they fell: for Heaven to them no hope imparts, To those who hear not for their beating hearts. A maiden-angel and her seraph-lover,…

— Anonymous

“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or at least…

— Marcel Proust

“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings…

— Ivan Goncharov

“Great works of art in all cultures succeed in capturing within the constraints of their form both the pathos of anguish and a vision…

— Stephen Batchelor

“We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright, I thought I had…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed what in…

— Oscar Wilde

“For the heart whose woes are legion ’Tis a peaceful, soothing region— For the spirit that walks in shadow ’Tis—oh, ’tis an Eldorado! But…

— Cassandra Clare

“Can it be that he has only seen her in seductive visions, and that this passion has been nothing but a dream? Surely they…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“From within the abysmal depths of a heart, the soul echoes A Lover's Tale of an Eternal Love (Through the Darkness, WIth Love -…

— Sandeep N. Tripathi

“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their…

— John Barlas

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour of the…

— Victor Hugo