Beauty Quote by Colum McCann

“He walked as he'd learned to walk, with only a minimal limp, back straight, head held high in confidence rather than cockiness. He walked…

— Robin Lee Hatcher

“If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his…

— Neil Gaiman

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and…

— C.S. Lewis

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“He felt more cheerful, revived by the journey, released from himself and his poor life, uplifted by thoughts of the infinite.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt…

— Leo Tolstoy

“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and…

— Peter Ackroyd

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“In walking, he unleashed the past that he had spent twenty years seeking to avoid, and now it chattered and played through his head…

— Rachel Joyce

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn…

— Victor Hugo