Crowded Quotes
310 quotes by 269 authors
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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin…
— E L Konigsburg
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But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our…
— Matthew Arnold
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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
— C.S. Lewis
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Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
— John Updike
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All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been…
— Betty Smith
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
— Walter Scott
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I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my…
— Irvine Welsh
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She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed…
— Nora Roberts
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The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.
— John Dunning
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small…
— Leonard Cohen
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in…
— Carson McCullers
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[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily…
— Thornton Wilder
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear…
— Charles Dickens
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I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store…
— Nicole Krauss
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Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you…
— Alice Walker
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Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff.…
— P. C. Cast
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He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded…
— Jerry Spinelli
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that…
— William Golding
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Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was,…
— Sylvia Plath
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