Generations-intelligence-wisdom Quote by Ivan Turgenev

“I should not be able to make any one understand how exciting it all was. You know that kind of quiver that trembles around…

— Mark Twain

“Bonaventure Arrow could travel the world through the abundant good graces of his silence.”

— Rita Leganski

“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.”

— Walter Lord

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from…

— Brandon Sanderson

“He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible. He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in…

— James Salter

“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

“The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.”

— Mark O'Brien

“Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”

— William Wordsworth

“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that…

— Anne Stuart

“It flew away, whatever it was, and now he squinted up and remembered that it was the first time in a long spell he…

— Wilfrido D. Nolledo