Cling Quotes

509 Cling quotes by 400 unique authors

It's so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don’t have to… — Karen Marie Moning
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that… — Henrik Ibsen
I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were;… — Robert Kiyosaki
Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns… — Lauren Oliver
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to… — Jeannette Walls
I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I… — Aleister Crowley
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had… — William Gaddis
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the… — Walter Mosley
In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I… — Lisa See
A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying… — Shel Silverstein
When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at… — Suzanne Collins
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I… — Martin Buber
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea… — James A. Baldwin
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling… — Justin Cronin
Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an… — Diana Wynne Jones
My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and… — Charles Bukowski
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging… — Galway Kinnell
There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled.… — Emma Forrest
Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the… — Jerry Bridges
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a… — George Orwell
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies… — Elie Wiesel
If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on. — Michael Morpurgo
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me,… — Maureen Johnson

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