Irrevocable Quotes
71 quotes by 63 authors
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...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
— Virginia Woolf
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That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact…
— Joan Didion
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Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward,…
— Kenneth Grahame
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the…
— Stephen King
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Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp…
— E E Cummings
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And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
— Marcel Proust
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He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretensions to…
— Betty Neels
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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right.…
— Brandon Mull
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When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on…
— Mike Carey
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
— James A. Baldwin
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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature…
— Franz Kafka
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It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in…
— William Faulkner
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The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often…
— Michel Houellebecq
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Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,…
— Paulo Coelho
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It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters.…
— C.S. Lewis
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History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Irrevocable Quotes
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