Return Quotes
3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often…
— Alice Hoffman
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Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last.…
— Christine Feehan
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The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at…
— Richard Rohr
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The world is full of places to which I want to return
— Ford Madox Ford
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He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so…
— Doris Lessing
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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one…
— Dante Alighieri
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Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
— Paulo Coelho
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I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.
— Siegfried Sassoon
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I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of…
— Edward Abbey
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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep…
— Johanna Lindsey
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
— Arthur C. Clarke
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This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never…
— Veronica Roth
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
— Victor Hugo
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that…
— Kate Morton
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This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear…
— Chris Cleave
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You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance", Jem said.
— Cassandra Clare
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with…
— Ann Brashares
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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind…
— Lauren DeStefano
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