Languid Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies. — Agnes Repplier
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid… — James Joyce
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders. — James Franco
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order… — Albert Camus
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the… — William Blake
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky… — Francis Parkman
We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is… — Henry Allen Ironside
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of… — Roger Rosenblatt
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens… — Alphonse de Lamartine
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. — Jonathan Swift
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton
maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly… — E E Cummings
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. — John Keats

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