Alienation Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Who doesn’t want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway? Who wouldn’t want to go down in flames?”

— John Darnielle

“Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground?…

— Matt Forbeck

“I wanted to burn, to hurt, to shatter into a million tiny pieces riding violent winds of flame and ruin.”

— Lia Mills

“I turned and moved fast, focusing swiftly on a wave I had selected for no reason. There was whiteness and grenyess in it and…

— Colm Toibín

“He walked on the Embankment once under a dark red sunset. The red river reflected the red sky, and they both reflected his anger.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames…

— Anthony Marra

“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is…

— Victor Hugo

“And yet he felt forebodings. Some nameless threat lurked just around the corner of the world for the sun to rise again. The feeling…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“that silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a continent. The…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He was shaking his head, biting into his lower lip, fighting the sheer misery of the anticipation, when he realized that another figure was…

— Anne Rice

“He tried not to think, not to understand: could there be any understanding of this? This had come, had crushed, and was roaring. If…

— Andrei Bely

“He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the…

— William Golding