Nature Quote by Marcel Proust

“The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my…

— Celeste Simone

“Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The walls were hung with rich tapestries representing the Triumph of Beauty. A large press, inlaid with agate and lapis-lazuli, filled one corner, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“Most people seemed satisfied with the thin decorative glaze and the artful stage lighting that, sometimes, made the bedrock atrocity of the human predicament…

— Donna Tartt

“The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls.The streets were enclosed between old, whitewashed…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhanced by surprise. By what…

— Marcel Proust

“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays on the…

— Marcel Proust

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The room was dark and velvety from the royal blue wallpaper with its gold pattern, but even here the echo of the flaming day…

— Bruno Schulz

“Sometimes after dinner, he would walk into the woods that began behind the house. He would stretch down on the ground on his stomach,…

— Ayn Rand

“Far from birds, from flocks and village girls, What did I drink, on my knees in the heather Surrounded by a sweet wood of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Dazed, she glanced around; the dark shapes of huge leaves reared above the denser dark of heavy pots, grouped upon a tiled floor. Moonlight…

— Stephanie Laurens