Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness.… — Margaret Haddix
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and… — J M Coetzee
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,… — Honore de Balzac
Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other… — Jennifer Crusie
A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my… — Aron Ralston
I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or… — Sebastian Barry
I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden. — Maggie Stiefvater
All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day. — Libba Bray
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not… — Robert Cormier
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there… — Madeleine L'Engle
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness. — Robert A. Heinlein
I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I… — J D Salinger
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. — Abraham Verghese
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the… — Peter Straub
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw… — Virginia Woolf
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like… — Ken Kesey
I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for… — Marguerite Duras
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of… — Alan Lightman
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems… — Taylor Swift
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and… — William Butler Yeats
The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in… — P.G. Wodehouse
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. — William S. Burroughs
He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face… — Veronica Roth
Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering… — Henepola Gunaratana

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