Enchantment Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image “It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enchantment Fall Falling asleep People Recognizing Way
The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“is beyond instinct, that area within our psyche that has never truly awakened after being lulled into a slumber through the centuries since we… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn—all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboard of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have. — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of… — Adorno, Theodor W Copy Share Image
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end. — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
“Love provides much needed warmth .. Excess of it would essentially mean burning .. Responsibility will turn love into enchantment .. And respect will… — Sandeep Sahajpal Copy Share Image
Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
