Antagonism Quote by James Joyce

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“Overhead, a fluff of a cloud was framed with pure golden light from the sun that was hidden from her view. Awed by the…

— Delia Parr

But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly. But he…

— D.H. Lawrence

“And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The early breeze sighing among the foliage, that waved high over the path, and the hollow dashing of distant waters, he listened to with…

— Ann Radcliffe

“The torments of his mind and the severe penance he had observed, had produced a surprising change in his appearance, so that he resembled…

— Ann Radcliffe

“He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans