Desire Quote by Paulo Coelho

“He went on telling stories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fear and surprise. As the time passed, the…

— Paulo Coelho

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

“The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I wanted dad’s life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on…

— Hermann Hesse

“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged…

— George Orwell

“It was another of the things he had left behind, another obvious step in a boy's life that he had decided not to take,…

— Paolo Giordano

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part of all…

— Earnest Poole

“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

“Imagining the end of things, when you are a child, is perhaps impossible. The thin child, despite the war that was raging, was more…

— A.S. Byatt