Life Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,…

— Thomas Hardy

“The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt…

— Charles Dickens

“His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as…

— Anonymous

“So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveler, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have…

— Charles Dickens

“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a…

— Charles Dickens

“Tenderly he drew on his lambswool gloves, and shivered a little; for the breath of that desert blew snell and frore and there seemed…

— E.R. Eddison

“He wondered if he would live to see the blossom on his apple trees and felt an answering pop inside himself. Ah, so it…

— Salman Rushdie

“As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening,…

— Georges Rodenbach

Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and…

— Alexander MacLaren

“But they hushed, all at once and quite abruptly, when he stood still at center stage, his arms straight out from his shoulders, and…

— Denis Johnson

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne