Beauty Quote by Daphne du Maurier

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite.…

— Katherine Dunn

I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I think that…

— Gary D. Schmidt

The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page,…

— Philip K. Dick

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

“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

At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the…

— Mark Haddon

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…

— George Orwell

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever…

— Dean Koontz

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man…

— Edith Wharton

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman