Chimes Quote by Cyril Connolly

“Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“He was always doing that these days. Everything he saw became a symbol of his own existence, from a rabbit caught in headlights to…

— Stephen Fry

“There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation…

— James Joyce

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He wondered where his mind had wandered this time, what life it had lived as a trail of neurons sped through networks of possibilities…

— Karl Drinkwater

“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.…

— Oscar Wilde

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was…

— Mitch Albom

“Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible…

— Toni Sorenson

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day…

— George MacDonald

“I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores;…

— Herman Melville