"Life-weary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Southern Italy. If Amalfi brings back to us the naval and commercial prosperity of the early middle ages; if Paestuni remains a monument of the oldest Hellenic civilisation; Capri, at a few miles' distance, is dedicated to the Roman emperor who made it his favourite residence, when, life-weary with the world and all its shows, he turned these many peaks and slumbering caves into a summer palace for the nursing of his brain-sick phantasy. Already on landing, we are led to remember that from this shore was loosed the galley bearing that great letter—verbosa ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... sin and temptation assail me! It will preserve me in an upright course, it will bring me back good and unspoiled. My wife must you be! You have soul, and with it nobility! Eva! in God's name, do not make a feeble, life-weary, ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen |
