Bells Quotes

516 Bells quotes by 406 unique authors

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. — Annie Dillard
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade,… — William Shakespeare
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom… — Christopher Moore
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near,… — Walt Whitman
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass… — Sylvia Plath
The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs… — Sue Monk Kidd
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs… — William Shakespeare
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along… — Denise Levertov
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad — Rainer Maria Rilke
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide. — Daniel Handler
Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but... — Kinky Friedman
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I… — Sylvia Plath
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So… — Ayn Rand
She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then. — Cormac McCarthy
Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell. — Emily Dickinson
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you… — C.S. Lewis
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee — John Donne
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry — William Shakespeare
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. — Shana Alexander

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