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512 quotes by 443 authors

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. — Orson Scott Card
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure… — Nick Bantock
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because youâ€™re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the… — Adrienne Rich
The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry. — Richard Paul Evans
She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the… — Terry Brooks
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to… — Rod Serling
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth â€“ Itâ€™s she who drives the loudmouths from… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of… — Paulo Coelho
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen… — Khalil Gibran
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker,… — Audrey Niffenegger
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run… — Herman Melville
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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