Slow Quotes

2145 Slow quotes by 1557 unique authors

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful… — Sonya Hartnett
Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. — William Shakespeare
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or… — Jesse Owens
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a… — Millard Kaufman
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… — Mark Helprin
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright… — Lewis Carroll
Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.… — John Steinbeck
Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and… — Alison Croggon
I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow… — Shel Silverstein
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling… — Chuck Palahniuk
And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they… — Mark Haddon
If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us. — Richard Carlson
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it… — Hugh Prather
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock — Charles Bukowski
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around… — Mark Z. Danielewski
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried… — Lois Lowry
Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. — John Steinbeck
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. — Neil Gaiman
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags… — Orson F. Whitney

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