Panting Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as… — Charles Kingsley
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the… — John Owen
'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest… — Aphra Behn
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul… — Paul Verlaine
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant… — Horace Mann
First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His… — Christopher Love
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast… — Jean Paul
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes… — Andre Breton
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me… — Cees Nooteboom
No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean… — Herman Melville
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop… — Bo Burnham
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster
The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its… — Sadegh Hedayat
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it… — Bayard Taylor
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to… — Naomi Shihab Nye
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and… — Zora Neale Hurston
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog! — Charles Dickens

Who Wrote These Panting Quotes

39 authors contributed a total of 43 Panting Quotes, led by these top contributors: