Exquisite Quotes

360 Exquisite quotes by 241 unique authors

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. — Emily Dickinson
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to… — Wallace Stevens
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy. — Emile Zola
The most exquisite paradoxâ€¦ as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't… — Ram Dass
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others. — Jean de la Bruyere
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a… — Ezra Pound
Enjoy that?' Tanith said with a little grin. Valkryie grinned back, her eyes bright. 'I keep telling Skulduggery he should get a bike.' What does… — Derek Landy
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from… — Bill Watterson
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety… — Kurt Vonnegut
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
I almost canâ€™t believe Iâ€™m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of… — Megan McCafferty
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The… — Muriel Barbery
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust

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