Felt Quote by Robert Burns

“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

“It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the out-door world, for he meant to light up the home with new…

— George Eliot

“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having lost control…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come…

— Ray Bradbury

“Under ground, under ground! Down in the safe soft womb of earth, where there is no getting of jobs or losing of jobs, no…

— George Orwell

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events,…

— John Steinbeck

“I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored…

— Thomas Hardy

“A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under…

— Graham Greene