Books Quote by Yukio Mishima

“Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“As I did so I became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing I half fancied…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I…

— Mary Shelley

“Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should…

— Diana Gabaldon

“It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“And I in a concrete room above the abandoned labyrinth of Palenque measuring my fate, wandering solitary in the wild --blinking singleminded at a…

— Allen Ginsberg

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.…

— J.D. Stroube

“There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon…

— Elizabeth Goudge