Beats Quote by Joseph Conrad

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once more those…

— Albert Camus

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised…

— Michael Cunningham

“DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they…

— Anne Rice

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors,…

— Charles Dickens

“And the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.' And suddenly that tranquil world, the world…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks flecked with…

— Mary Ann Evans

The hidden secrets, the swirling whispers in the dark, those shadows of the past, faintly whispering a dark path once tread.

— Rachel

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning