Leaden Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those…
— Tim O'Brien
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Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
— Stephen Crane
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Walk out,†he repeated. “We need to talk.†“About how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body?†I asked, my tone light,…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the…
— Richard Francis Burton
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And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and…
— Thomas Wolfe
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No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
— Gail Carson Levine
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A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our…
— Alan Moore
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Give away the stone, let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.
— Tool
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