Adventure Quote by Joseph Conrad

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to…

— John le Carré

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

— Melina Marchetta

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate…

— Cormac McCarthy

“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had…

— Joseph Conrad

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique…

— Anonymous

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

— Steven Millhauser

“He looks as if he were three or four; looks just like one of those unapproachable, incomprehensible, willful little prehuman creatures, who in their…

— Patrick Süskind

“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh brings cities…

— S.U. Pacat

“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of…

— George Eliot