Returning Quotes
357 quotes by 309 authors
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To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection.…
— Paulo Coelho
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What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
— Haruki Murakami
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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to…
— Steve Berry
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On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my…
— Lisa Unger
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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and…
— Saint Augustine
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I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach…
— Erin Morgenstern
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely…
— Wallace Stegner
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In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
— Tahir Shah
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And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It…
— Daniel Handler
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Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.'…
— Patrick deWitt
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We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to…
— Alyson Noel
Who Wrote These Returning Quotes
309 authors contributed a total of 357 Returning Quotes, led by these top contributors: