Rising Quotes

852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors

I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water.… — Denise Levertov
Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me. — Anna Akhmatova
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful,… — Charles Dickens
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,… — Paulo Coelho
...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross. — Cheryl Strayed
Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you rate my horse… — John Flanagan
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s… — Ann Voskamp
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be… — Steven Levenkron
Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I held him tighter.… — Kim Harrison
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would… — Rachel Joyce
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your… — Khalil Gibran
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep,… — Albert Camus
It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came.… — Madeline Miller
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In all Gabriel’s life he could not remember his brother giving even the prettiest of Shadowhunter girls a second glance. Yet he looked at this… — Cassandra Clare
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. — George Saunders
In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great… — Mervyn Peake
The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand — Suzanne Collins
He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But… — Hilary Mantel
The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply… — Robert Farrar Capon
What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I… — Maggie Stiefvater
Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens. — Rainbow Rowell
I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just… — Richelle Mead
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a… — Thomas Adams

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