Dreams Quote by Joseph Conrad

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt…

— Marie-Claire Blais

“He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for…

— Nick Lake

“Late in the night I pay the unrest I own to the life that has never lived and cannot live now. What the world…

— Wendell Berry

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In solitary at the towering fortress of desire, visioning for what the heart craved to restore, though waiting endlessly for the impossible.”

— Catherine McGee

“And I felt ready to live it all again too. As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for…

— Albert Camus

“In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers? He would never allow it.”

— Kelly Creagh

“Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was…

— Mary Balogh

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a…

— Eric Jerome Dickey