Enveloped Quotes
44 quotes by 42 authors
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
— Charles Dickens
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that…
— Anne Lamott
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It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I…
— Carl Jung
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Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence…
— Sarah Vowell
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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her…
— Thomas Hardy
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They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to…
— Christopher Paolini
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The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing…
— Elie Wiesel
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There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
— Christopher Moore
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A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
— Herman Melville
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I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and…
— Ally Carter
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What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a…
— Haruki Murakami
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Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted…
— Melina Marchetta
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Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never…
— Thomas Paine
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In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains…
— Benedict Wong
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have…
— Wade Davis
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
— Herman Melville
Who Wrote These Enveloped Quotes
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