Reprieve Quotes - Page 2

• Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

  R. D. Laing

  Family, Spiritual, Baby

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

  Euripides

  Fate, Harsh

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Doors, Knowing, Jail

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• This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

  Laini Taylor

  Loneliness, Lying, Heartache

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

  Adam Ross

  Thinking, People, Movement

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• If Arnold is elected, you know who I'd feel sorry for? The people on death row. Imagine, you're about to be executed, the governor calls, you think it's your reprieve, and you hear 'Hasta la vista, baby.'

  Jay Leno

  Baby, Sorry, Thinking

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• whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Holiday, Talking, Ideas

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• Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life Is, Wells, Knows

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

  Steve Almond

  Expectations, Velocity, Able

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