118 Quotes About The-green-knight

Perhaps after all not to have been born is best. How near the human soul must be to nothingness if it can be so tossed.

But oh — time has become such a torture, a slow torture. One tries to capture a piece of time that lies ahead and is full of light . . . but thinking about that just makes this awful black time even blacker.

As he rose to go and held Louise's hand and gazed at her he felt for a moment his old love for her taking possession of his whole being. They looked at each other. I feed upon this looking, thought Clement, but does she? I don't know, and I cannot ask. I am terrified of saying something which would wound our whole precious relationship. We are well as we are. I love her, that's all, that is my drama.

What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?

They had become, year by year, month by month, mysterious to her, her love for them an extended pain, a web or field of force, of which she felt at times the almost breaking tension.

He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.

Sometimes I think he will become quite desperate — with the pain of simply being himself — he might do anything.

Look Moy, see the chimneys, they've lit all the fires, they must have known we were going to try to drown ourselves. And Anax is running on ahead to bring the news.

She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.