Quote by Michael Chabon

“He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries…

— Michael Chabon

“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.”

— David Maze

“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in the world…

— Virginia Woolf

“Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, in immovability like…

— Sun Tzu

“And then he bent his own neck and put the chain upon it, and at once his head was bowed to the ground with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how often, in…

— Thomas Hardy

“The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams…

— David Weber

“He’d imprisoned himself in this castle to rot. He’d cut off all contact with the outside world. And just when he thought he’d burned…

— Tessa Dare

“The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the…

— Sherwood Anderson

“That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we’re seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience…

— Molière