Wild Quotes

2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that,… — Anita Shreve
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise… — Edward Thomas
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild. — Rudyard Kipling
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I… — Bruce Springsteen
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and… — Ruskin Bond
She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water… — Cassandra Clare
I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing,… — Maggie Stiefvater
I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the… — Taylor Swift
a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores. — William Shakespeare
That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always… — Stephen R. Lawhead
That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. — Scott Westerfeld
In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and… — Laurie Halse Anderson
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —… — Maurice Sendak
MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go… — Ray Bradbury
A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs. — Margaret Mitchell
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going… — Jandy Nelson
Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that… — Upton Sinclair
Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and… — Flannery O'Connor
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead! — Arthur Miller
Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is… — Annie Dillard
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live.… — Jack Kerouac
She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires. — Margaret Mitchell

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