Gradually Quotes
699 quotes by 550 authors
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Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting…
— Jon Richardson
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one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul
— Kate Chopin
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A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his…
— Garth Stein
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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit…
— Novalis
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting…
— Anne Frank
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Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
— Margaret Atwood
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I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the…
— Paul Murray
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Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and…
— Brother Lawrence
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The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.
— Jim Morrison
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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
— Sebastian Faulks
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Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They…
— Haruki Murakami
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
— Vita Sackville-West
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Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the…
— Christopher Isherwood
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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious…
— Colleen McCullough
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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace…
— Michael Ondaatje
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