Dejection Quote by Gustave Flaubert

•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning…

— Gustave Flaubert

“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,…

— Gustave Flaubert

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was afraid, too, frightened of what she found herself becoming. She felt that she was transforming into a malevolent black spider, hunched back…

— Laura Kinsale

“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.”

— Robert Goolrick

“For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.”

— Jeremias Gotthelf

“She sometimes felt like the spider in the middle of the family web, trying to hold all the threads together.”

— Phaedra Patrick

“But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing…

— Stephen King

“Crawling across the barren ground, life was hard for the tiny colorless caterpillar. But today, she shimmied in delight like a ballerina twirling before…

— T.L. Price

“The world had gone too quiet and the possibility that she and Lou were the only ones left alive tickled at her brain like…

— Gina Ranalli

“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a web which…

— Peter S. Beagle

“The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.”

— Dean Koontz