Cocoon Quotes
89 quotes by 77 authors
-
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
— Susan Faludi
-
In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting…
— Chogyam Trungpa
-
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as…
— E. M. Forster
-
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early…
— Arthur Ashe
-
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
— Eva Green
-
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance…
— Aldous Huxley
-
I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or…
— Anna Kendrick
-
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
— James Russell Lowell
-
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of…
— Gary Zukav
-
The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of…
— Audrey Niffenegger
-
His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and…
— Michael Chabon
-
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the…
— Eric Carle
-
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So…
— Neal Shusterman
-
If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow…
— Francesca Lia Block
-
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or…
— Amy Tan
-
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
— Mary Balogh
-
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it…
— Suzanne Collins
-
But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live…
— Ann Voskamp
-
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
-
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her…
— Ken Follett
Who Wrote These Cocoon Quotes
77 authors contributed a total of 89 Cocoon Quotes, led by these top contributors: