Window Quotes

2236 quotes by 1591 authors

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing… — Edith Wharton
The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of… — Audrey Niffenegger
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was… — Samuel Beckett
How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because… — Yann Martel
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I scarcely remember counting upon happinessâ€”I look not for it if it be not in the present hourâ€”nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting… — John Keats
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need… — Terry Pratchett
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that… — Alberto Manguel
If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely… — Jonathan Carroll
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What… — Virginia Woolf
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch… — Elizabeth Strout
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because… — Lois Lowry
Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news,"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see… — Chuck Palahniuk
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and… — Angela Carter
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come… — Rick Riordan

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