Heaven Quote by Lucretius

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire…

— Alan Glasser

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea?”

— Gustave Flaubert

“This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew…

— Bruce Brooks

“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

“He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe…

— Edith Wharton

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

— Victor Hugo

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence…

— Victor Hugo

“Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature more, and…

— George MacDonald

“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land,…

— Mervyn Peake

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free…

— Ayn Rand