“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Virginia Woolf book Moments of Being
Source: Moments of Being
Source: Autobiographical Notes
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Virginia Woolf book Moments of Being
Source: Moments of Being
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Explorer, Stanza 2 (1903).
Other works
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Jubal had a frame
Fashioned to finer senses, which became
A yearning for some hidden soul of things”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: Jubal had a frame
Fashioned to finer senses, which became
A yearning for some hidden soul of things,
Some outward touch complete on inner springs
That vaguely moving bred a lonely pain,
A want that did but stronger grow with gain
Of all good else, as spirits might be sad
For lack of speech to tell us they are glad.
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Robert Cormier book Beyond the Chocolate War
Source: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 81
Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer
Source: The Candymakers
