words to inspire before you expire
“It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror—of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:
‘The horror! The horror!'”
—from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
“‘We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not . . . or die of despair.'”
—from The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
“September 30, 1659. I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead.”
—from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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