Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityâ”€â”€of being unable to undo what one has doneâ”€â”€is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… — Hannah Arendt
The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It… — Carl Jung
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. — Judith McNaught
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. — Don DeLillo
What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the… — George Orwell
The end was contained in the beginning. — George Orwell
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales. — Kate Morton
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,… — Annie Dillard
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a… — Tatjana Soli
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not â€” self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company,… — Pam Brown
The Hopi Indians thought that the worldâ€™s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting… — Matthew J. Kirby
Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved,… — Deborah Harkness
Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. — Anna Quindlen
She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and… — Neil Gaiman
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map… — Alice Hoffman

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