Boundaries Quote by Christopher Paolini

“He had been sleepwalking through his own life, a life that was a canvas devoid of colour, and at last, he had awoken to…

— Anonymous

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had…

— Paul Bowles

Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“He lay back with his eyes shut, still sodden in the atmosphere of the dream. It was a vast, luminous dream in which his…

— George Orwell

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo

“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which…

— Victor Hugo

“He closed his eyes in the languor of sleep. His eyelids trembled as if they felt the vast cyclic movement of the earth and…

— James Joyce

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling…

— Vikram Seth

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold…

— Cormac McCarthy