Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted… — Haruki Murakami
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of… — Cassandra Clare
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn] — Sherrilyn Kenyon
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in… — Pablo Neruda
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the… — Kurt Vonnegut
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If only my heart were stone. — Cormac McCarthy
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? — Robin Hobb
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone. — Oscar Wilde
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them.… — Alice Sebold
Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?… — Terry Pratchett
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. — Victor Hugo
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their… — Margaret Atwood
He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up… — Leonard Cohen
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… — Wallace Stegner
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as… — Baruch Spinoza
Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that… — Jacqueline Carey
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at… — Samuel Johnson

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