Utterly Quotes
850 quotes by 690 authors
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I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did…
— John Green
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Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy,…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any…
— Marilynne Robinson
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For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as…
— Fernando Pessoa
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There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
— Madeleine L'Engle
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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the…
— Richard Rohr
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It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants…
— Charles Colson
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Good God,†I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly…
— Kim Harrison
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I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret…
— Jim Butcher
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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
— Emma Goldman
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Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.
— Paulo Coelho
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget…
— Bill Watterson
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People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on…
— Bill Watterson
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[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It…
— Amitav Ghosh
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Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already…
— David Wong
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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
— George Saunders
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There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.
— Terry Pratchett
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