Dry Quotes

1049 Dry quotes by 802 unique authors

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. — Jean-Paul Sartre
At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.… — Tom Robbins
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of… — Stephen Fry
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. — Janet Fitch
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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
What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its… — Jerry Seinfeld
the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing… — Toni Morrison
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They… — Mark Twain
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but… — Unknown Author
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield
What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question! — Tamora Pierce
The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that… — Starhawk
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like… — Audrey Niffenegger
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry. — Douglas Adams
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt… — John Keats
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world. — J D Salinger
Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood! — Alfred de Musset
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,… — Anne Bronte
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though… — Edith Wharton
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson

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