Centuries Quotes

950 Centuries quotes by 728 unique authors

When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court, and when I… — Melissa Marr
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means… — Erich Fromm
We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few… — David Eagleman
A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their… — Ilona Andrews
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph,… — Thomas Cahill
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek.… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior… — Karen Marie Moning
Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon… — Nizar Qabbani
Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You… — Charles M. Schulz
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. — Ayn Rand
Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. — Karen Chance
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its… — Gail Carriger
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth… — John Stuart Mill
A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows… — Rick Riordan
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New… — James A. Baldwin
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the… — Anais Nin
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales… — Patricia A. McKillip
Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion… — Michel Foucault
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. — Bram Stoker
The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection… — David Levithan
And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye… — Charles Bukowski

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