Wild Quotes

2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both:… — Neal Shusterman
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped,… — Harper Lee
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… — Jack London
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the… — Jack London
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc.… — John Green
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans… — Marcus Luttrell
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego… — Jack London
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. — Hunter S. Thompson
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give… — Albert Camus
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. — Jack London
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh… — Homer
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are… — Sigmund Freud
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste… — Jon Krakauer
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. — Diana Wynne Jones
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,… — Lauren Groff
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. — Maurice Sendak
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times… — John Grogan
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood. — Pablo Neruda
at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is… — Terry Pratchett
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. — Maurice Sendak
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took… — Boris Pasternak

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