Yawning Quotes

47 quotes by 46 authors

A yawn is a silent shout. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. — Josephine Tey
In spring rain a pretty girl yawning. — Kobayashi Issa
I donâ€™t know how you look at the inside of your head â€” what metaphor you choose â€” but for those of us with endless… — James St. James
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
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
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
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions… — Werner Herzog
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
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
There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present. — Joseph Heller
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. — Mason Cooley
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. — Octavio Paz
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami
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
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett
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
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
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

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