Desire Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you…

— Ally Condie

“His soul, it seemed to him, was more than empty. It was desiccated, reduced to the powder of its substance and now in danger…

— Randy Attwood

“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Something nameless yet essential was gone from him and he couldn't bear the thought of it being stolen. It wasn't a feeling of great…

— Rebecca Hill

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I looked out of the window and saw him sitting in the early rays of the sun, a dark silhouette in the sand, motionless…

— Cees Nooteboom

“As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in spite of…

— Andreï Makine

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his…

— Elizabeth Spencer

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“-but deep down he knew that change was only the interval of death between two forms of life, destruction necessary to make room for…

— John Galsworthy