Shrivels Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds…
— Thom Yorke
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid…
— Freya Stark
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Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the…
— Herman Bavinck
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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle…
— Julianna Baggott
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The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
— Paul Fussell
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Faith idles when character shrivels.
— Miroslav Volf
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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
— Orson Welles
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But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
— Margaret Atwood
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Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just…
— Paul Celan
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And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that…
— Timothy Keller
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Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.
— Christopher Pike
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It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive…
— Peter Straub
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If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of…
— Marion Woodman
Who Wrote These Shrivels Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Shrivels Quotes as follows: