Firsts Quote by Hernando Cortes

It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then…

— Tana French

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

— Stefan Zweig

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

— Jack Kerouac

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival…

— Anonymous

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the…

— Helen Keller

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that…

— Sarah Dessen

I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and…

— Lucy Christopher

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's…

— Louise Erdrich

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

— Paul Gauguin

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the…

— Vincent Van Gogh