Whirling Quotes
53 quotes by 49 authors
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the…
— Rumi
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it…
— Joseph Lyons
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of…
— Dante Alighieri
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
— John Banville
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We are whirling through endless space, with and inconceivable speed, all around everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be…
— Nikola Tesla
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
— Edward Hoagland
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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in…
— James Fitzjames Stephen
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes…
— Philip Reeve
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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems…
— Andrew Marr
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Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward…
— Vernon Howard
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If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of…
— Sonja Henie
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The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.
— Edmund Spenser
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The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to…
— Margaret Millar
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur;…
— Sarah Kay
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I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.
— Sara Coleridge
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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield…
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Whirling Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 53 Whirling Quotes, led by these top contributors: