Yawns Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. — Henry George
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate… — Aldous Huxley
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates,… — Lord Chesterfield
Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. — Warren Buffett
Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you. — Tao Porchon-Lynch
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. — Rebecca West
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more… — Margaret Atwood
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a… — William Butler Yeats
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most… — Vera Nazarian
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm… — C.S. Lewis
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into… — Dennis Lehane
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching.… — Bret Easton Ellis
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look… — Oscar Wilde
The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The… — Samuel Beckett
Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love — Kobayashi Issa
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that… — Dodie Smith

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