Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 141 authors

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff… — Frans de Waal
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space… — Dave Eggers
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued:… — Marian Keyes
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the… — Simone de Beauvoir
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is… — Charles Fort
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than… — W. Somerset Maugham
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt… — John Keats
As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the… — Stephen King
When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous… — Garth Stein
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands… — Josef Pieper
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all… — Martin Heidegger
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish… — Soren Kierkegaard
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the… — Roberto Bolano
Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. Itâ€™s what I cling to when everything elseâ€”everyone… — Rachel Vincent
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From… — Terry Goodkind
Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of… — Gladys Taber
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard… — Ellen Hopkins

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