Assuming Quote by Cornelia Funke

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea…

— Cornelia Funke

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What…

— Michael Ende

“The dust dreams of the world it had once been. But the dust, alas, does not command the wind.”

— Steven Erikson

“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke…

— Julia Quinn

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“Millions and Millions," he whispered to himself: and the enormity of the evil seemed to grow with every repetition of the word. All over…

— Aldous Huxley

“But just below the grim tranquility he had learned to display, he cursed with boiling intensity the ambitious men who used him and his…

— Karl Marlantes

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

“There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw…

— hermann hesse