“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not...”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait waistcoats.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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