Life Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me,…

— Isabel Allende

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.…

— J.D. Stroube

“John Berryman: The Song of the Tortured Girl After a little I could not have told - But no one asked me this –…

— John Berryman

“Sunk in the mud, it took all my strength to flip it over. I lifted out the oar and inspected the bottom for holes…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It makes me wonder what I might become that day when I've nothing to hold me back, when I've only the flame in my…

— Rebecca Hahn

“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the complete step…

— Jack Kerouac

“Unfurl my body, wind, lift me up into the branches of a majestic beauty that guides a people through life. I would sway with…

— Susan L. Marshall

“You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will…

— John Updike

“I wanted to be a butterfly caught on the breeze, floating and free finally, my knowledge of who this man really was fulfilled after…

— Sarah Michelle Lynch

“I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me:…

— Philip Larkin