Quote by Virginia Woolf

“There was a mystery about it. You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain—the actual meeting; horribly painful as often not; yet in absence,…

— Virginia Woolf

“For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and then the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”

— Knut Hamsun

“How young and inexperienced I must have seemed, and how I felt it, too. One was too sensitive, too raw, there were thorns and…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Something bloomed right then and there in the small dark space between us. I didn’t know what it was, but I knew enough to…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the…

— Jodi Baker

“I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more than I…

— Alan Bradley

“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,…

— Craig Davidson

“And then suddenly I realized that I was feeling- well, that I was actually feeling. My old personality was, after months of pills and…

— Douglas Coupland