This Dark Endeavor Quotes
"For three dark days my brother and I had tracked it through the maze of caves to its lair on the mountain’s summit."
"Coins and jewels clinked and shifted as its body began to uncoil."
"The speed with which the beast struck was incomprehensible."
"A ribbon of dark fluid unfurled in the moonlight."
"Because it is you," she whispered, "who is the real monster."
"Now I shall have all the riches in the world."
"Extreme times call for extreme measures."
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
"The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful."
"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility."
"No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs."
"Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness."
"I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
"Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned, and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt."
"If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you: it is from your cousin, I believe."
"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
"If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as you do, and arm themselves for my destruction."
"I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing."
"Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion."
"I saw no cause for their unhappiness; but I was deeply affected by it."
"This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained."
"In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground."
"Early in the morning before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse."
"My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy."
"The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence; while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love."