Meanwhile Quotes
175 Meanwhile quotes by 155 unique authors
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The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy…
— Emily Bronte
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating…
— Haruki Murakami
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know…
— Cassandra Clare
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An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and…
— Neal Stephenson
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She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed…
— Alice Sebold
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And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be…
— Jonathan Franzen
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It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes…
— Leo Tolstoy
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A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived…
— Kiran Desai
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Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.
— Cassandra Clare
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep…
— Haruki Murakami
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We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
— Mario Benedetti
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David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive…
— John Connolly
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Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.
— Michael Ondaatje
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A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in…
— Michael Crichton
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Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the…
— Elif Safak
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Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
— Richard Carlson
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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could…
— Charles Bukowski
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You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,…
— Anais Nin
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Yes, you make yourself useful, angel boy. Meanwhile, I’ll be in the bathroom.” William’s jet-black hair was dripping wet and plastered to his face. There…
— Gena Showalter
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The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full…
— Mary Oliver
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little…
— Charles Bukowski
Who Wrote These Meanwhile Quotes
155 authors contributed a total of 175 Meanwhile Quotes, led by these top contributors: