Wild Quotes

2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors

Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods… — Hal Borland
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that… — Oscar Wilde
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of… — Leonard Cohen
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The… — Emily Dickinson
The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild… — Richard Russo
What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. — Louisa May Alcott
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of… — Gene Wolfe
So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? — Louise Erdrich
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without… — Diana Gabaldon
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be… — Albert Camus
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience… — Bram Stoker
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions… — Michael Chabon
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an… — David Wroblewski
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every… — Philip Larkin
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there,… — Kenneth Grahame
And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically… — Meg Cabot
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free. — Robert A. Heinlein

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