Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
-
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your…
— Douglas Rushkoff
-
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised…
— Ernest Hemingway
-
Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather…
— Lewis Carroll
-
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t…
— Douglas Adams
-
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will…
— A A Milne
-
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
— Maya Angelou
-
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't…
— Bill Bryson
-
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought…
— David James Duncan
-
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any…
— Nick Hornby
-
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful…
— Terry Pratchett
-
Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
-
and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but…
— Jodi Picoult
-
Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is…
— Jean-Luc Godard
-
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you…
— Audrey Niffenegger
-
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his…
— Sylvia Plath
-
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not…
— Hermann Hesse
-
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
— Milan Kundera
-
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?"…
— Douglas Adams
-
But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble…
— Norton Juster
-
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere…
— Thomas Pynchon
-
We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am…
— John Green
-
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three…
— Jose Saramago
Who Wrote These Suddenly Quotes
1,697 authors contributed a total of 2,531 Suddenly Quotes, led by these top contributors: