Ashes Quote by Plutarch

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

“Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with…

— Juliet Marillier

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.”

— Walter Isaacson

“The torments of his mind and the severe penance he had observed, had produced a surprising change in his appearance, so that he resembled…

— Ann Radcliffe

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour of the…

— Victor Hugo

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within…

— Kate Grenville