Children Quote by Mervyn Peake

“There he was. The infant Titus. His eyes were open but he was quite still. The puckered-up face of the newly-born child, old as…

— Mervyn Peake

“And perhaps it is not too beautiful a thing to believe in this redeemed world, that, as the babe turns to his mother though…

— Charlotte M. Mason

“Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be,…

— Julia A.F. Carney

“Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first…

— H. Rider Haggard

“He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in…

— James Salter

“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.”

— cate tiernan

“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz

“Sinuhe, my friend, we have been born into strange times. Everything is melting – changing its shape – like clay on a potter’s wheel.…

— Mika Waltari

“The fresh complexion of former days was gone. A mortal pallor covered those features, which he had known so charming and so gentle, and…

— Gaston Leroux

“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world,…

— Hermann Hesse