Surrounded Quotes

876 quotes by 737 authors

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. — Jeanette Winterson
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. — Jorge Luis Borges
nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be… — Margaret Wise Brown
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. — Horace Greeley
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the… — W. Somerset Maugham
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to… — Libba Bray
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt… — Cassandra Clare
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. — Freya Stark
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It… — Markus Zusak
I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I,… — Sarah Dessen
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and… — Janet Fitch
Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the… — Melissa Marr
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… — Diane Setterfield
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and… — Paulo Coelho
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one! — Ram Dass
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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