Motionless Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How… — William Wordsworth
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood… — Simone Weil
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.… — Edward Abbey
A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy,… — Katherine Dunn
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence... — Joan Miro
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him… — Mike Harding
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't… — E E Cummings
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems… — Cameron Dokey
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. — Gore Vidal
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no… — William Wordsworth
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within… — Edgar Allan Poe
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… — C.S. Lewis
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her… — C.S. Lewis
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda

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