Scattered Quotes

273 Scattered quotes by 245 unique authors

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change… — Jane Siberry
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no… — John Berger
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that… — Joseph Campbell
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibranâ€™s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlighteningâ€”itâ€™s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism… — Khalil
Iâ€™m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. Itâ€™s not to… — Delphine de Vigan
For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality… — Steve Rasnic Tem
The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God has not seen… — Henry Clarence Thiessen
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He… — Bram Stoker
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the… — William Blake
Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that… — Deena Metzger
Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in… — Thomas Merton
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I… — Fernando Pessoa
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. — Ezra Taft Benson
I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again. — Jimmy Santiago Baca
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three — Bob Goff
An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of… — H.G. Wells
If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. — Dalai Lama
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present.… — Camilla Gibb

Who Wrote These Scattered Quotes

245 authors contributed a total of 273 Scattered Quotes, led by these top contributors: