Surrounded Quotes

876 quotes by 737 authors

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we… — Barbara Kingsolver
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration,… — Brigham Young
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. — Homer
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He… — Paul Simon
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
â€¦I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you. — Mary Oliver
In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my… — Adeline Yen Mah
It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good… — Augusten Burroughs
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't… — Mark Z. Danielewski
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things… — Isabel Allende
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed… — Nora Roberts
Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone. — Teresa Medeiros
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the… — Milan Kundera
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't… — John Steinbeck

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