Culture Quote by Pat Conroy

“In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the…

— Ármin Vámbéry

“If I die tomorrow, Provincetown is where I’d want my ashes scattered. Who knows why we fall in love, with places or people, with…

— Michael Cunningham

“So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveler, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have…

— Charles Dickens

“The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt…

— Charles Dickens

“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions…

— Italo Calvino

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world…

— Mary Shelley

“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those…

— Thomas Ligotti

“There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose…

— Steve Maraboli

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old…

— Wendell Berry