Beats Quote by William Wordsworth

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…

— George Orwell

As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he finds a…

— Ernest K. Gann

The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love…

— Anita Shreve

“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

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever,"…

— Emily Dickinson

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

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham