Certain Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him.…

— Jack London

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

— Baron d'Holbach

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life…

— Nina George