Blur Quotes

• Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

  Marvin Davis

  Motivational, Past, Focus

  329 Copy quote

• You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

  David Chase

  Self, Interesting, Kind

  348 Copy quote

• Slight changes simply make a blur.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

  253 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

  Wright Morris

  Track, Photograph, Snail

  Wright Morris (1989). “Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory”

  337 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

  Ann Voskamp

  Cherish Every Moment, World, Moments

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.66, Zondervan

  214 Copy quote

  Show source

• A blur of great magic is still just a blur.

  Ken Weber

  Magic, Hazy, Ambiguity

  193 Copy quote

• Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

  Frank Gehry

  Sometimes, Knows

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2013.

  175 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

  John Cena

  Life, Encouraging, Uplifting

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2014

  403 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Bills, Birth, Visa

  228 Copy quote

• The universal view melts things into a blur.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Views, Universal

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

  140 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Consciousness, Pleasure

  160 Copy quote

• Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

  Jessie J

  Dream, Stars, Believe

  Song: Who You Are, Album: Who You Are, 2011

  99 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Years, Thought Provoking, Forever

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

  198 Copy quote

  Show source

• Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eyeglasses, Vision, Clear

  294 Copy quote

• Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Tears, Fool

  Joyce Carol Oates (2001). “We Were the Mulvaneys”, p.129, Penguin

  171 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Important, Identity

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 18, 2015

  131 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cities, People, Waiting

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.313, A&C Black

  175 Copy quote

  Show source

• The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done.

  Radical Face

  Eye, Done

  Song: Welcome Home, Son, Album: Ghost, 2007

  116 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Light, Years, Quality

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.139, Vintage

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

  Bill Griffith

  Meat, Republican, Life Is

  25 Copy quote

• I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

  Conor Oberst

  Regret, Details, Life Is

  100 Copy quote

• It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Makeup, No Makeup

  Song: No Make-Up, Album: Section 80, 2011

  184 Copy quote

  Show source

• The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Self, Discipline

  18 Copy quote

• The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Ignite Me”, p.8, Harper Collins

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

  Damon Albarn

  Travel, World, Made

  "Keeping It (Un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source