Beach Quote by Georges Rodenbach

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“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

“Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose…

— N.D. Wilson

“The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life,…

— Victor Hugo

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence…

— Victor Hugo

“The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New…

— Colum McCann

“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

“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he needed to…

— Sarah J. Maas