Sudden Quotes
1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only…
— Mary Oliver
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I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.
— Melissa Marr
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants…
— Ned Vizzini
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The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work,…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone…
— Albert Camus
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control…
— Agatha Christie
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Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It isn’t the fall that will kill you, but the sudden stop.
— Darynda Jones
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super…
— Haruki Murakami
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The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories…
— Paulo Coelho
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What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all.…
— John Flanagan
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.. but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love.
— David Sedaris
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Happy Birthday." Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned…
— Richelle Mead
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All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
— Roland Barthes
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk,…
— J D Salinger
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Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you…
— Michel Foucault
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There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year…
— Faith Baldwin
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This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.
— Daniel Woodrell
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Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been…
— Patrick deWitt
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