Interior Quotes
371 quotes by 295 authors
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We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows…
— Charles Wright
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection,…
— Simone Weil
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Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg,…
— Anne Tyler
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I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they…
— Jonathan Lethem
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a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Barbara was actually Jeff Foxworthy's interior designer when we first met. So, not only was Jeff responsible for my success in my career, he also…
— Ron White
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...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires....
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a…
— Steven Pinker
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After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend…
— Karen Armstrong
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I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take…
— Quentin Crisp
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Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?†He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju,…
— Ann Aguirre
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Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
— Jane Austen
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Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had…
— Anne Fadiman
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It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and…
— Herman Melville
Who Wrote These Interior Quotes
295 authors contributed a total of 371 Interior Quotes, led by these top contributors: