What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning.
Hermann Hesse, Wandering, 1920
Monotony has nothing to do with a place;
monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person.
There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.
G. K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1911
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters, AD13
Earth laughs in flowers
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya, 1846