The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

"Above me shones the stars, for the night was very clear. I felt a certain sense of friendly comfort in their twinkling. All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings. But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore. Southward ( as I judged it) was a very bright red star that was new to me; it was even more splendid than our green Sirius. And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own toubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life."
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

"But he, Siddharta, where did he belong? Whose life would he share? Whose language would he speak?
At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards."

"Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast."

"But he has the secret of those people to whom success comes by itself, whether it is due to being born under a lucky star ot whether it is magic, or whether it has has learned it from the Samanas. He always seems to be playing at business, it never makes much impression on him, it never masters him, he never fears failure, he is never worried about a loss."

"So that was what he had come to; he was so lost, so confused, so devoid of all reason, that he had sought death. This wish, this childish wish had grown so strong within him: to find peace by destroying his body."

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

Dracula - Bram Stoker