Aeneas Quote by Ellie Fox

“So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas, more than…

— Virgil

“So Aeneas pleaded, his face streaming tears. Three times he tried to fling his arms around his neck, three times he embraced--nothing...the phantom sifting…

— Virgil

“He smiles and shakes his head, a smile that’s bewildered and content and still pursed by that same tender sadness that visited him by…

— Dane Huckelbridge

“Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations,…

— John Knowles

“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief…

— Cormac McCarthy

“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse blanket on…

— Patrick Süskind

“Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of a torrential downpour, he was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content…

— Anna Godbersen

“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

“But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they came every…

— Lawrence Anthony

“Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls…

— Erlend Loe

“Alexander shifted in my arms. God, he was so small, and from the giddy looks on my father's and Ashley's faces, they already worshiped…

— Katie McGarry

“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to…

— Banana Yoshimoto