Plunge Quotes - Page 6

• Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Suffering, Depth, Height

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.503, Xist Publishing

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• No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

  Martin Buber

  Dream, Mean, Greed

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

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• Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Mind, Wish

  "The Wisdom of Insecurity".

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• Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

  Catherine Anderson

  Swimming, Men, Two

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• But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

  Harlan Coben

  Moving, Dark, Night

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• Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

  Jack London

  Fire, Earth, Forests

  Jack London, Gene Engene, Books in Motion (2007). “Call of the Wild”, p.132

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• A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Science, Men

  Quoted in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900)

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• Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness.

  Cassandra Clare

  Darkness, World, Sometimes

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Sea, Purple

  Hal Borland (1965). “Countryman: A Summary of Belief”

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• People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

  Charlotte Gray

  Cat, Animal, People

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• Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books

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• Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

  Maya Banks

  Cliffs, Hops, Leap

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Joy

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

  Charles Hodge

  Darkness, Atheism, Mystery

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.199

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• There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

  Jules Verne

  Horse, Animal, Rocks

  Jules Verne (2016). “EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS “ Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery and Suspense: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and many more”, p.363, e-artnow

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• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hate, Philosophy

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Stars, Freedom, Light

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.

  Vannevar Bush

  Science, Ideas, Weak Spots

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• Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

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• Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

  John Calvin

  Self Esteem, Believe, Dark

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• The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and shot himself. Nicklaus got up the next morning and shot 66.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Morning, Writing, Loss

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• Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

  John Vianney

  Prayer, Soul, Baths

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• These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

  David Nicholls

  Grief, Hands, Ice

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.365, Hachette UK

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• We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

  Thomas McGuane

  Children, Couple, Hands

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.82, Vintage

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• Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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