Evocative Literary Lines IX

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun,
yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”Leo Tolstoy,  Anna Karenina


“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights,
the light of all lights.”
Bram Stroker, Dracula


“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
W. H. Auden, The More Loving One 

Please share with us a line from literature that inspires you.

8 thoughts on “Evocative Literary Lines IX”

  1. I love the Anna Karenina line–Tolstoy had a knack for lines like that. My vote would be for Don Quixote: “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

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