Bidding Quote by John Milton

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence…

— Victor Hugo

“The earth was quiet around him, but alive. He felt it through the soles of his feet when he walked. The vibrancy of the…

— G. Norman Lippert

“I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. "Accident," I whisper. I will…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and…

— Charles Dickens

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret…

— Dante Alighieri

He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon…

— Virginia Woolf

“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light”

— Alan Brennert

“Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring.…

— Jack London

“By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have…

— Phil Patton

“Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in…

— Charles Dickens

“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely…

— Robert M. Pirsig