Poem Quote by Rilke Rainer Maria

“His mind and his flesh had separated, his brain had sat high and frightened above the mule of his body, a beast of burden…

— Adam Johnson

“He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually he managed…

— patrick suskind

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like he’d sprinted twenty yards. As the…

— Tao Lin

“The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness, nothing he…

— Lucius Shepard

“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

“The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down…

— Virginia Woolf

“There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.”

— Justin Bienvenue

“For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and…

— Wendell Berry

“His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots…

— Victor Hugo

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky