Wild Quotes

2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has… — Thomas Merton
truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by… — Elizabeth McCracken
Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they… — James Joyce
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties — John Muir
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself — Herman Melville
There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be… — Dorothy Parker
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my… — Hunter S. Thompson
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill… — Kelley Armstrong
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we… — Barbara Kingsolver
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… — Matthew Arnold
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage — Richard Paul Evans
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling… — Roger Zelazny
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the… — C.S. Lewis
His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. — Irvine Welsh
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… — Homer
She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the… — Patricia A. McKillip
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to… — Jeanette Winterson
All good things are wild and free. — Henry David Thoreau
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. — Oscar Wilde

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