Suspended Quotes

• A journey is time suspended.

  Louis L'Amour

  Journey

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.161, Bantam

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• You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Two, Mind

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• Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Love Is, Secret

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• Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Creativity, Forget

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

  Henry James

  Experience, Spiders, Tissues

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Time, Past, Here I Am

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• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, World, Dominion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Life And Death, Aliens

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.

  Ruth Graham

  Knowing, Waiting, Soul

  Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

  Carl Sagan

  Dust, Sunbeams

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, People

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2313, Penguin

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• What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

  James Nares

  Giving, Fleeting, Movement

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• Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

  Claude McKay

  Clothes, Shining, Lines

  Claude McKay (1953). “Selected poems”

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• . . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.

  Muriel Barbery

  Despair, Odd, Moments

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• What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

  Maurice Clarett

  Team, Ohio State, Half

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• We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.

  Niels Bohr

  Character, Reality, Ideas

  "Philosophy of Science", Volume 37 (p. 157), 1934; later quoted in Roger Gerhard Newton "The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality" (p. 176), 1997.

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• Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

  Aristophanes

  Essence, Data, Air

  Aristophanes (1984). “Four Plays”, Plume

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• It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

  John Steinbeck

  Would Be, Golden, Emotion

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.48, Penguin

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• I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Thinking, Down And, Sometimes

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• My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

  Douglas Portway

  Space, Water, People

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• You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

  Alfred Molina

  Air, Feet, Three

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• That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Hands, Heaven

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• Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dream, Years, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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