unattainable Quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”