Surrounded Quotes
876 quotes by 737 authors
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Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world…
— Amy Tan
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Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise…
— Cassandra Clare
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Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be…
— Natsuo Kirino
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I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak…
— Stephen Levine
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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our…
— Muriel Barbery
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A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded…
— Ernst Junger
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The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole…
— Charles Simic
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At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his…
— Alice Munro
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I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened…
— Josh Lanyon
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You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.
— Megan Hart
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I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out…
— Gretchen Rubin
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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who…
— Susanna Clarke
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She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been…
— Deanna Raybourn
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't…
— David Levithan
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Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by…
— James Patterson
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When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine…
— Rachel Cohn
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