Rising Quotes

852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors

But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon… — John Green
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and… — Zbigniew Herbert
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed… — Che Guevara
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that… — David Benioff
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of… — Carl Sandburg
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you… — Margaret Atwood
We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us. — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam… — Gerald Durrell
Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream — Sylvia Plath
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space… — Nicholas Sparks
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. — Jean Rhys
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .… — Marilynne Robinson
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives,… — Dean Koontz
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of… — Rajneesh
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the… — Khaled Hosseini
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in… — Muriel Barbery
Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the… — Eloisa James
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One… — Henry Adams
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist."… — Jodi Picoult
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands… — Janet Fitch
When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five… — Susan Cooper
There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else. — Harry Crews
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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