Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of… — Margaret Atwood
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment… — Peter Ackroyd
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying… — Robert Anton Wilson
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come… — Pablo Neruda
may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. — E E Cummings
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest… — A A Milne
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula,… — Charles Bukowski
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall… — Stephen King
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You… — Arthur Golden
Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream. — William Butler Yeats
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,… — Chuck Palahniuk
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods… — Albert Camus
The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died… — Patricia A. McKillip
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.… — Ayn Rand
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying… — William Hazlitt
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those… — Charles Dickens
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental… — Emily Dickinson
Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words. — Margaret Atwood
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were… — Janet Fitch
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. — Oscar Wilde
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men… — Hiromu Arakawa
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it… — Anne Sexton

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