Clings Quotes

117 Clings quotes by 100 unique authors

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. — Henry Miller
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,… — Alan Watts
He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing… — Jhumpa Lahiri
We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack… — Harlan Ellison
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture.… — Nick Flynn
In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the… — Charles Baxter
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything… — Barbara Mertz
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot… — Bob Dylan
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that… — Bell Hooks
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to… — Alan Watts
The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the… — Garth Stein
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart. — Anna Maxted
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this… — Vladimir Nabokov
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,… — Eric Hoffer
To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake… — Yann Martel
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his… — Anne Frank
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the… — James A. Baldwin
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. — John Keats
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is… — John Gardner
…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. — Martin Luther
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the… — Neale Donald Walsch

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