Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, bu… — Quoted

“Quotes”

“Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”

Thomas Wolfe · Romantic

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

Thomas Wolfe

All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Home

Thomas Wolfe

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Money

Thomas Wolfe

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Art

Thomas Wolfe

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

Loneliness