Swallowed Quotes

254 quotes by 200 authors

The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and… — Kaye Gibbons
Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer â€¦ Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is… — Reinhold Niebuhr
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your… — Jean Webster
But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom. — Barbara Kingsolver
â€¦though I wouldnâ€™t have admitted it, even to myself, I didnâ€™t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable… — Sheldon Vanauken
Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,… — P.G. Wodehouse
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. — Ismail KadarÃ©
The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox. — Cornelia Funke
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this… — John Milton
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and… — John Steinbeck
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed… — Upton Sinclair
Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. â€œFeel that?â€ His throat worked… — Cheyenne McCray
Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He… — Jodi Picoult
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of… — Antonin Artaud
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,… — Samuel Beckett

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