Amid Quotes

292 Amid quotes by 233 unique authors

(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have… — Jonathan Safran Foer
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and… — Edgar Allan Poe
Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He landed on his back amid a tangled pile of clothes. "Isabelle," Simon protested weakly, "do you really think this is going to make you… — Cassandra Clare
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste… — Jon Krakauer
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. — Paul Celan
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… — Albert Camus
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! Â Â Â No hungry generations tread thee down; Â The voice I hear this passing night was heard… — John Keats
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon.… — E E Cummings
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. — Scott Westerfeld
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or… — Michael Pollan
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance — Epictetus
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from… — Malcolm X
Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of… — Yukio Mishima
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the… — Mario Vargas Llosa
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds. — Paul Brunton

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