Human life Quote by Helen Hooven Santmyer

“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery,…

— Georges Bernanos

“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

— Henry James

“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last knitting together.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It is enough to say that her perception of the endless interest of the place was such as might have been expected in a…

— Henry James

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She had always experienced big, intense emotions here at Lover's Leap. Under this huge sky, surrounded by infinite beauty, she had grieved to the…

— Emily March

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“What is she like? I was told— she is a melancholy soul.”

— Lang Leav

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence