Cell Quotes
837 quotes by 680 authors
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be…
— Thomas Hardy
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If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a…
— Neil Gaiman
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Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across…
— Etty Hillesum
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Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
— Neil Peart
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Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance--…
— Rajneesh
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Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the…
— Ian Rankin
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Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who…
— Douglas Adams
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YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make…
— James Patterson
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if…
— Pablo Picasso
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
— Oscar Wilde
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Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,…
— Toni Morrison
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This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within…
— Primo Levi
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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to…
— Jodi Picoult
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun…
— Andrea Camilleri
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers…
— Oscar Wilde
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I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it…
— Sloane Crosley
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Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary…
— Sam Harris
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The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes…
— Megan Whalen Turner
Who Wrote These Cell Quotes
680 authors contributed a total of 837 Cell Quotes, led by these top contributors: