Theme: existentialism
Frankenstein / Loss and Friendship
I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world befor...
Frankenstein / Nature and Isolation
stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Freedom and Compensations
After all, as Conseil said, we enjoyed perfect liberty, we were delicately and abundantly fed. We could not complain, and, indeed, the singularity of ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Electric Timekeeping
Now look at this clock; it is electrical, and goes with a regularity that defies the best chronometers. I have divided it into twenty-four hours, like...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets and Isolation
I keep you, when I could, by a word, plunge you into the depths of the ocean. You came to surprise a secret which no man in the world must penetrate,—...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nature versus Technology
Besides, to work was to quit the _Nautilus_, and breathe directly the pure air drawn from the reservoirs, and supplied by our apparatus, and to quit t...
The War of the Worlds / Confronting Mortality
“That’s what I’ve been thinking,” he said; “that’s what I’ve been thinking. Most of the people were hard at it squealing and exciting themselves. I’ve...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Curiosity and Confinement
On each side a window opened into this unexplored abyss. The obscurity of the saloon showed to advantage the brightness outside, and we looked out as ...
Dracula / Mind and Madness
I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, th...
Frankenstein / Inner Turmoil
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Hunger and Imagination
The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. And...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Echoes of Solitude
Still it was a positive fact that someone was speaking. A dread fell upon my soul that it might be my own words brought back to me by a distant echo. ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Moment of Uncertainty
At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...
The War of the Worlds / Preservation of Knowledge
It’s saving our knowledge and adding to it is the thing. We must make great safe places down deep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry...
The War of the Worlds / Power Dynamics
And even if there’s a delay, how can it alter the end? There’s the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Knowledge
Then, addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought: “M. Aronnax,” he asked, “do you know the depth of the ocean?” “I only know, Captain, w...