unattainable Quotes

“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols . . . perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part.”