Quote by George Eliot

“That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness…

— George Eliot

“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

“Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr. Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to…

— George Eliot

“The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth's part in life, and a day…

— Virginia Woolf

“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was…

— Emily Dickinson

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was a sense of privilege and mute wonder, as though he’d witnessed one of those small, everyday miracles of spring. Like a licked-clean…

— Tessa Dare

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer

“It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but this blank…

— Anne Carson

“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

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and…

— C.S. Lewis