Believe Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have death to…

— Jan Siegel

“He was obliged to walk against the wind, buffeted by the last shifting gusts of all the dead people he met along his path.…

— Maurizio de Giovanni

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

“I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it…

— Charles Dickens

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair

“Yet Theo had become engrossed in his own tale, transporting himself back to the night of which he spoke. In the distance, he could…

— A. H. Septimius

“In the utter peace and stillness the world seemed holding its breath, a little apprehensively, drawing near to the fire to warm itself. There…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite…

— Anonymous

“He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“... he ran across the road and began to walk at breakneck speed down the hill. He hardly knew where he was walking. Pride…

— James Joyce

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard