Utter Quotes
526 quotes by 447 authors
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He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just…
— Paul Bowles
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We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething…
— H P Lovecraft
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
— William Faulkner
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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and…
— Yann Martel
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It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a…
— Edmond Rostand
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I utter what you would not dare think
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you…
— Sylvia Plath
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We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth…
— Mervyn Peake
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The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words…
— Neil Gaiman
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Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you know…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the…
— Jasper Fforde
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true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.
— Jodi Picoult
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and…
— Charles Dickens
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Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
— Khalil Gibran
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
— William Shakespeare
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In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess…
— Suzanne Collins
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