Scattered Quotes
273 Scattered quotes by 245 unique authors
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
— William Golding
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
— William Faulkner
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Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and…
— Rob Thurman
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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted…
— Saint Augustine
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I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes…
— Kelley Armstrong
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It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different…
— Neil Gaiman
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Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that…
— Khalil Gibran
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I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and…
— Megan Hart
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When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own?…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
— Ned Vizzini
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Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in…
— Robert Browning
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And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
— Khalil Gibran
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in…
— Fernando Pessoa
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So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for…
— May Sarton
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I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me…
— Richelle Mead
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