Corruption Quote by Joseph Conrad

“His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire. He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly,…

— James Joyce

“Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the…

— James Joyce

“He stilled for a moment, savoring the sensation of being buried deep inside her, of filling her, of being joined together in God’s heavenly…

— Monica McCarty

“At the moment of death, the soul's impressions are similar to those of initiates in the ways of the Great Mysteries. First they rush…

— Bernard Werber

[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to…

— Vincent de Paul

“He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying down of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence. At such times love…

— Jack London

“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which…

— Victor Hugo

“He felt soothed and happy, as if some gentle and invisible hand had removed from his soul the burden of his body.”

— Jose Conrad

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour of the…

— Victor Hugo

“Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so completely that…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes