Graceful Quotes

208 Graceful quotes by 170 unique authors

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation;… — Pam Houston
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride… — Louisa May Alcott
Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody… — Tony Hoagland
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in… — Neil Gaiman
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance,… — Megan Whalen Turner
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the… — Megan Whalen Turner
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as… — Leonard Cohen
Mom and I were walking onteh beach and I was explaining to her how I wantd to "GET OVER all my INSECURITIES" and "La La...… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in… — Carl Sagan
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which… — Charlotte Bronte
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so… — David Foster Wallace
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. — Henry James
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once,… — Charles Dickens
Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we… — Robert A. Heinlein
A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is… — Anne Bronte
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the… — Charles Dickens
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
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the… — Natalie Goldberg
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful… — Alain de Botton
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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