Joy Quote by E. M. Berens

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and…

— Charles Dickens

“Rouse him:—make after him, poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell, Plague…

— William Shakespeare

“But there is an unholy fascination in systematic noise. He did not flee from it incontinently, as one might have expected him to do.…

— Joseph Conrad

“There is no doubt that these legendary gentlemen were capable of experiencing, even to an intense degree, the sensation of fear--otherwise they would have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree it was the prodigious contrastbetween…

— Patrick O'Brian

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess,…

— Jack London

“chuckling—the sound he made when any force in the world defeated him. He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a…

— John Steinbeck

“frightened people shriek the loudest and fire at random.”

— Paul Scott

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne