Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped… — Rainer Maria Rilke
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance… — Rudyard Kipling
We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky,… — John Irving
Ronnie James Dio died the other day, quietly succumbed to a relatively sudden onset of stomach cancer and up and left the planet in a… — Mark Morford
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or… — Douglas Adams
I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or… — Sarah Rees Brennan
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone… — Lynne Truss
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while… — George Eliot
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest… — Henry David Thoreau
...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger. — Margaret Atwood
‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me,… — Charles Dickens
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn… — Herman Melville
Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. "I would prefer not to quit… — Herman Melville
Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden… — Susan Wittig Albert
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death. — Cassandra Clare
Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright… — Cassandra Clare
Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we… — Steve Wozniak
The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can… — Katherine Hannigan
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology — Zbigniew Herbert

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