Lapse Quotes

75 quotes by 67 authors

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. — George Eliot
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. — Robert Southey
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse… — Hermann Hesse
The longest day must have its close â€” the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that… — N. T. Wright
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. — Aristotle
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.… — Gregory Maguire
The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the… — Lord Byron
Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal. — Pope John Paul II
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity — Tom Peters
Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation. — Charlaine Harris
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going… — Jandy Nelson
arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be… — David Levithan
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else. — Gay Hendricks
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the… — Glen Duncan
All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees… — Thomas Wolfe

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