Midst Quotes
841 Midst quotes by 613 unique authors
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I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
— Henry Miller
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There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our…
— Hermann Hesse
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The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we…
— Italo Calvino
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God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I…
— Lance Armstrong
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The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others,…
— Laurie R. King
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We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.
— Sandra Gulland
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I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.
— Sojourner Truth
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Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already…
— Rob Bell
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
— Agatha Christie
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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick,…
— Amy Lowell
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All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for…
— Denis Johnson
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From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
— C.S. Lewis
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Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a…
— Barry Lopez
Who Wrote These Midst Quotes
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