Soft Quotes
1463 quotes by 1087 authors
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Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but…
— Julian Barnes
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When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw...
— Cassandra Clare
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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and…
— Libba Bray
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If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like…
— Larry McMurtry
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And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun…
— Shel Silverstein
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in…
— Evelyn Waugh
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And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the…
— Gunter Grass
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You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.
— Bill Watterson
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Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,…
— Anais Nin
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What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very…
— Chuck Klosterman
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A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is…
— Anne Bronte
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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
— Khalil Gibran
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Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
— Julius Lester
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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Not fat, just not anorexic. She's soft in all the right places.
— Gena Showalter
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With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a…
— Patrick Süskind
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Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
— William Shakespeare
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