Deepest thoughts Quote by Wayne Thiebaud

“I think the knowledge came to him at last — only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out early, and…

— Joseph Conrad

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he…

— Joseph Conrad

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores;…

— Herman Melville

“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had…

— Joseph Conrad

“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.…

— Don DeLillo

“Then in the darkness and purity of the meadows he began to feel that the world had many secrets, that they were shattering even…

— Mark Helprin

“His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through…

— Walter Kirn

“He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place…

— Hermann Hesse

“The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does…

— John Ruskin