Uninvited Quotes

• The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

  Stephen King

  Ghost, Sometimes, Muse

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  People, Enemy, Guests

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Happiness, Freedom, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

  Katherine Applegate

  Wall, Glasses, Light

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

  Susan Glaspell

  Past, Half, Welcome

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Solitude, Guests

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.522, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

  Harold Town

  Party, Guests, Painting

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• Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Moments, Conscious

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• Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Guests, Uninvited Guests

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• In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

  Martha Manning

  Country, Sadness, Defense

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• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Flower, Bees

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• Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

  Aesop

  Guests, Welcome, Uninvited Guests

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.37, Penguin

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• Uninvited criticism is insult.

  John L'Heureux

  Editors, Criticism, Insult

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• Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

  Howard Thurman

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Yoga, World

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• Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Men, Knowing

  "My Credo". Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in "Einstein: A Life in Science" by Michael White and John Gribbin, 1994.

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• The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Lonely, Progress, Fields

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• Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Party, Doors

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• I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

  Sophia Bush

  People, Rude, Attention

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

  Eleanor Catton

  Self, Perspective, Dawn

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

  Richard Russo

  Past, Focus, Odd

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• And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Explanation, Halls

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.

  Mary Kingsley

  Running, Smell, Giving

  Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• … she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

  Steve Toltz

  Memories, Jehovah, Looks

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

  Daniel Handler

  Party, Heart, Ties

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