Yawning Quotes
47 quotes by 46 authors
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A yawn is a silent shout.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance…
— Barbara Holland
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One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
— Josephine Tey
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In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
— Kobayashi Issa
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I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless…
— James St. James
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great…
— Moby
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
— Marcus Aurelius
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But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all…
— Hugh Miller
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We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions…
— Werner Herzog
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Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary…
— Marcel Proust
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There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.
— Sri Chinmoy
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There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.
— Joseph Heller
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
— Mason Cooley
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
— Octavio Paz
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
— Criss Jami
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed…
— Josephine Baker
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Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
— V. S. Pritchett
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If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your…
— Loren Eiseley
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The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the…
— Orson Welles
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What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Who Wrote These Yawning Quotes
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