Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against… — Charles Bukowski
Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of… — Jasper Fforde
It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were… — Jon Stewart
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because… — David Mitchell
It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The… — Kate Morton
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to… — Simone de Beauvoir
A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was… — Laini Taylor
(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of… — E E Cummings
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own,… — Aberjhani
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief… — John Taylor Gatto
When death comesâ€¦. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what itâ€™s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And… — Mary Oliver
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are… — David Mitchell
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths. — David Mitchell
Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you… — Alison Croggon
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read… — Mary Oliver

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218 authors contributed a total of 258 Singular Quotes, led by these top contributors: