Chrysalis Quote by Ray Bradbury

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause,…

— Anonymous

“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 becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in…

— Tom Robbins

“In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; he knew that he was likely to…

— Ackroyd Peter

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind

“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

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“…At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“... he'd awoken alone, and the simple fact of the silent room and the empty bed beside him filled him with such despair he…

— J.T. Geissinger

“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was…

— Thomas Ligotti