Extinguished Quotes

138 quotes by 126 authors

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond… — Frederick Lenz
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India. — Gregory David Roberts
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by… — Karl A. Menninger
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes… — Michelangelo
Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the… — Thomas Pynchon
I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between… — Samuel Beckett
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal… — Victor Hugo
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and… — Paulo Coelho
I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the… — Graham Greene
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be… — Joyce Carol Oates
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely… — Daniel Handler
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,… — J M Coetzee
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will… — Marilynne Robinson
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up… — Karen Hesse
But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are… — Margaret Atwood
...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into… — W G Sebald
Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung… — Cassandra Clare
Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them… — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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