Suspended Quotes

183 Suspended quotes by 162 unique authors

Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so… — Robert M. Pirsig
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I… — Sylvia Plath
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden… — John Steinbeck
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself… — John Knowles
Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like… — Kim Edwards
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form… — Anne Lamott
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. — Alan Moore
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off… — Milan Kundera
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate… — Markus Zusak
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no… — Muriel Barbery
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a… — Sue Monk Kidd
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding… — Donald Miller
This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know… — Paulo Coelho
Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could… — Kate DiCamillo
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.… — John Fowles
‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out… — Unknown Author
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear… — Karen Marie Moning
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect… — Ray Bradbury
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest… — Vladimir Nabokov
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. — Lawrence Durrell
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared… — Alicia Keys

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