The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's… — Nikolay Davydenko Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin may wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning at life. — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers.… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of… — James St. James Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
