Wild Quotes
2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors
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Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered...
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him…
— James Joyce
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There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into…
— Neil Gaiman
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The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to…
— Rick Yancey
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.
— Nalini Singh
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I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to…
— Mary Oliver
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A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet…
— Marissa Meyer
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They were afraid of your authentic love, because authentic love is beyond their control.You are possessed by it. You are not the possessor, you are…
— Rajneesh
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Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you…
— Taylor Swift
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You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both…
— Ally Carter
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He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate,…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
— Winston Churchill
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;…
— William Shakespeare
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The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job…
— C.S. Lewis
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Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
— Axel Munthe
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Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by…
— David Hume
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Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
— David Mamet
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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