Cling Quotes

509 Cling quotes by 400 unique authors

Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought… — Diana Gabaldon
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I… — Sylvia Plath
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false… — J.R.R. Tolkien
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling… — Seth Grahame-Smith
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. — Albert Camus
People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes. — Garth Stein
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end. — Adrienne Rich
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything… — Ron Currie Jr.
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could… — Masashi Kishimoto
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends… — Washington Irving
it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice,… — Mary E. Pearson
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them… — Joanne Harris
It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately… — Jostein Gaarder
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and… — Malcolm Gladwell
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important,… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If… — Jenny Downham
We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the… — Emma Goldman
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good,… — Anne Rice
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you… — Kathleen Norris
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago.… — Wilhelm Reich

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