Endless Quotes - Page 35

• The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Focus, Gone

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.

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• Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

  John Piper

  Sun, Nothing New, Waste Of Life

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• Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Vision

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Stupid, Dirty

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.

  Donald Miller

  Lonely, Stars, Mean

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Dog, Cutting

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Dimitri. I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't read what he was feeling. His face betrayed nothing, but there was something in his eyes...something intense and intimidating. The image of him ready to take down that group of guardians flashed through my mind,and something told me that if I asked,He would fight his way to me through this courtroom and do everything in his power to rescue me from it.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Fighting, Dark

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Mother, Beach, Children

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “World's Fair: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

  Philip Roth

  Lying, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Apr 19, 2012

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• Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Curiosity, Misery, Fast Food

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.171, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

  Steve Lopez

  Dream, Storm, Unexpected

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing, Alaska, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  I Hate You, Alaska, Knowing Better

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love Is, Giving, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

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• I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe? "Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Dust, People

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• The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Journey, Chatter

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• The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Sea, House

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Children, Eye, Night

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Lying, Men, Agony

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• I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

  Stef Penney

  Weakness, Action, Despise

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Thinking, Terrible

  Anne Rice (1993). “Lasher”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

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• Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Wrestling, Careers, Mind

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• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, People, Giving

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• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)

  Nancy Holder

  Spring, Rain, Self

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