Closing Quotes

365 quotes by 315 authors

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards. — Brandon Mull
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck.… — Shannon Hale
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements,… — Anne Rice
I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But… — Sarah Dessen
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far… — Jean-Paul Sartre
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the… — Unknown Author
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you… — Victor Hugo
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… — Zadie Smith
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher… — Chuck Palahniuk
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took… — Boris Pasternak
Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause. — Carlton Mellick III
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the… — Zadie Smith
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and… — Douglas Coupland
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and… — Nick Burd
I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who… — Alice Sebold
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold

Who Wrote These Closing Quotes

315 authors contributed a total of 365 Closing Quotes, led by these top contributors: