Book Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have…

— Michael Ondaatje

Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had…

— Anonymous

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a…

— Anonymous

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while…

— Henry David Thoreau

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself…

— Paulo Coelho

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera

“He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was that boredom…

— Terry Pratchett

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He…

— Mervyn Peake

“Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Serenity. Now you could wish for that, naming no conditions: a permanent inner vacation, escape made good. To somehow have this motionlessness that he…

— John Crowley