Lurking Quotes - Page 7

• Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Past, Hands, House

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

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• The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Soul And Body, Evil, Enemy

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

  Cyril Connolly

  Hate, Hatred, Dividends

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Aunt, Boys

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.13, Pottermore

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• It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicide, Suicidal, Virtue

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• Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Law, Ideas

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

  Michael Chabon

  Soul, Fugitive

  "Wonder Boys". Book by Michael Chabon, 1995.

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• The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Darkness, Sound

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES äóñ The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity”, p.366, e-artnow

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• Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  Jack Kerouac

  Talking, Joy, Soul

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

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• I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

  Jim Butcher

  Sorry, Book, Apology

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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