History Quote by William Gibson

“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an…

— George Eliot

“The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.”

— Dean Koontz

“He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, his still more wretched school-days, the years…

— H.G. Wells

“Terribly thwarted in the autumn and winter, deadened in summer, in the spring his egoism would awaken his once inadequately defined revolt against world…

— Danilo Kiš

“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

“He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into…

— Ivo Andrić

“He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall…

— Omar Khayyám

“The first wind of winter blew from the north, and it had ice and rime on its breath. It was dirty and sharp and…

— Neil Gaiman

“In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a…

— Thomas Wolfe

“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him…

— Edith Wharton