Belief Quote by Colson Whitehead

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Then, oh, then a totally new life would begin at once! He dreamed of this other, this renewed and now "virtuous" life ("it must,…

— Dostoevskiy F. M

He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always,…

— Jack Kerouac

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his…

— Julie Orringer

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but…

— James Hogg

“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

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion.…

— Patrick Süskind

“He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was that boredom…

— Terry Pratchett

“When first resurrected, he’d worried constantly over which aspects of his past he should imitate for the sake of sanity, and which he should…

— Greg Egan

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to…

— Charles Frazier

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

— Nicholas Sparks