Best Afterward Proverbs
284 Afterward quotes by 236 unique authors
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What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use…
— J R Ward
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Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it…
— Siri Hustvedt
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What are you going to do? What do you want to do?” she prompted. “I’m going to go try to help Niall. He’s not acting…
— Melissa Marr
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The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend…
— Terry Pratchett
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Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is…
— Rick Yancey
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This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
— Tanith Lee
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Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything…
— Matthew Quick
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Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine.…
— J R Ward
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YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me.…
— Jenny Lawson
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I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be…
— H P Lovecraft
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Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
— John Steinbeck
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
— Holly Black
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?…
— Henry David Thoreau
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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.
— James Patterson
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Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.
— Paulo Coelho
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He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the…
— Josh Lanyon
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It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.
— Susan Mallery
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It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons,…
— Orson Scott Card
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In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write…
— Tove Jansson
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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