Object Quotes

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(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is this?â€ he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. â€œThisâ€¦ thisâ€¦ thing?â€ â€œA parsnip?â€… — Cassandra Clare
In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against… — Grant Morrison
...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. — Donna Tartt
Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it… — Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious… — Jonathan Franzen
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.â€ MallarmÃ© repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;… — Jorge Luis Borges
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth. — Meister Eckhart
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. — Chuck Palahniuk
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work.… — Mindy Kaling
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be… — N. T. Wright
Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents. — Haruki Murakami
Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of… — Jennifer Worth
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. — Alain de Botton
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. — James Joyce
Today each of you is the object of the otherâ€™s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads… — Anais Nin
Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point… — Witold Gombrowicz
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of… — N. T. Wright
Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that… — Cassandra Clare

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