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210 Clinging quotes by 158 unique authors

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to… — Chogyam Trungpa
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. — Alan Moore
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But… — Dorothy Parker
...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to… — William Faulkner
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that… — Henry Rollins
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your… — Mira Grant
If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic. — Richelle Mead
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult… — James Salter
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass… — Kurt Vonnegut
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,… — Juliet Marillier
Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in… — Suzanne Collins
The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice… — Cassandra Clare
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace… — Henri Nouwen
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit… — Ben Elton
How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many… — Ben Sherwood
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked… — Alexandra Bracken

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