Remained Quotes

499 quotes by 428 authors

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity. — Rafael Sabatini
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the… — Salman Rushdie
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written… — Jodi Picoult
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now… — Amy Tan
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. — Paul Celan
Motherâ€™s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truthâ€™s direction, even those… — Mary Karr
In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand… — Pascal Mercier
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… — Wilkie Collins
So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by… — John Knowles
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth.… — Jonathan Littell
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed. — Jean Rhys
When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him… — Franz Kafka
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey… — Thomas Hardy
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off… — Milan Kundera
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… — Roland Barthes
Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation… — Sarah Dessen
In a way, the worldâˆ’view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the… — George Orwell
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had… — Gustave Flaubert
But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of… — Alyson Noel

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