Artificial Quotes

516 quotes by 440 authors

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion… — Charlaine Harris
The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might… — Megan Whalen Turner
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial,… — Tom Robbins
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.Â What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. — Oscar Wilde
What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute. — Kelley Armstrong
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of… — Thomas Merton
D.H. Lawrence had the impression â€“ that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I… — Joan Didion
And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like… — Edgar Degas
â€ŽBy 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions… — Michio Kaku
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,… — William Shakespeare
We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears… — Yasmine Galenorn
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in… — Emily Giffin
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on… — Terry Goodkind
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King

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