Panting Quotes
43 quotes by 39 authors
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
— Paul Auster
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: