Threads Quotes
158 quotes by 147 authors
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A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could…
— Hermann Hesse
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Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.
— David Levithan
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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in…
— Maya Angelou
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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be…
— Clive Barker
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I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking…
— Jennifer Weiner
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I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
— Charles Bukowski
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today.…
— Kim Edwards
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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
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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
— Orson Scott Card
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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
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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
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And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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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
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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
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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
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She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
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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
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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
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