Scattered Quotes
273 Scattered quotes by 245 unique authors
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We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory,…
— Libba Bray
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
— Wendell Berry
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Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as…
— Nhat Hanh
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Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put…
— P.W. Catanese
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Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze…
— Don DeLillo
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Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces…
— Donita K. Paul
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being…
— Carson McCullers
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Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.
— Kami Garcia
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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
— Veronica Roth
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Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled…
— Lauren Oliver
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I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary…
— Saul Williams
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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
— Charles Dickens
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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
— Haruki Murakami
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Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at…
— Fuyumi Ono
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A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had…
— Mitch Albom
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I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done…
— Langston Hughes
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I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the…
— Susanna Kearsley
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My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.
— Kiersten White
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What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I…
— Andrea Gibson
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But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood…
— Steven Millhauser
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but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram...
— Daniel Handler
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Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string -…
— Charles Spurgeon
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who Wrote These Scattered Quotes
245 authors contributed a total of 273 Scattered Quotes, led by these top contributors: