Endless Quotes - Page 34

• The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

  Anais Nin

  Revenge, Men, Needs

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• There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

  Jacqueline Carey

  Variation, Patterns, Theme

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.

  Martine Leavitt

  Loneliness, Heart, Feelings

  Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.43, Highlights Press

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• As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

  John Green

  Moving, Sleep, Blow

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.53, A&C Black

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• You are an endless project...changing, evolving, surprising.

  James Patterson

  Projects, Evolve, Surprising

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• I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Dream, Morning, Heart

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.41, Grove Press

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• I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.

  Christopher Fowler

  Hate, Fall, Fabric

  Christopher Fowler (2010). “The Victoria Vanishes: (Bryant and May Book 6)”, p.248, Random House

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Duration

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Space, Substance

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• Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

  Alan Moore

  Successful, Viruses, Mud

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Kissed by an Angel”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Night, Wind

  Pablo Neruda, “Enigmas”

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• Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.

  Megan Hart

  Ocean, Rocks, Broken

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• We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

  Daniel Dennett

  Decision, World, Quests

  "Freedom Evolves". Book by Daniel Dennett, 2003.

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• As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

  Mervyn Peake

  Ocean, Imagination, Effort

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• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Song, Kings

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Commitment, Doors

  "Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.

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• One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Transformation, Wave, Eat Love Pray

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Dying, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Sorry, Years, Gone

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Littles, Apocalypse

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “Signal to Noise”, p.51, Dark Horse Comics

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• The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

  Mark Doty

  Distance, Reality, Would Be

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Trouble, Pleasure

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