Worn Quotes - Page 6

• So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Might, Sunlight

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• I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Country, Differences

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• La barbilla un poco más alta, querida. El estilo depende en gran medida de cómo se lleve la barbilla. Actualmente se llevan muy altas.

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Littles, Way

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.133

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Block, Heart

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• If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Years, Suffering

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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• Al menos nueve décimas partes de toda la realidad original jamás creada se encuentran fuera del multiverso, y puesto que el multiverso por definición incluye absolutamente todo lo que es algo, esto pone un poco de tensión en las cosas. Fuera de los límites del universo se encuentran las realidades en bruto, los "podría-haber-sido", los "podría-ser", los "nunca-será", las ideas salvajes, todas creadas y descreadas caóticamente como elementos en supernovas en fermentación. Sólo ocasionalmente, allí donde las paredes de los mundos se han desgastado un poco, pueden filtrarse.

  Terry Pratchett

  Muro, Mentira, Realidad

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• Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.

  Boris Pasternak

  Flor, Libro, Ojo

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• So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

  Iván Turguéniev

  Dream, Moving, Tired

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• I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Hats, Doe

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• In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Thinking, Doubt

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• And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

  James Howe

  Littles, Bears, Teddy Bear

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• The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

  A. B. Simpson

  New York, Book, Fall

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• Stepan Arkadyevitch no había elegido sus opiniones políticas o sus puntos de vista; estas opiniones políticas y puntos de vista habían llegado a él por sí mismos, al igual que él no eligió las formas de su sombrero y abrigo, sino que simplemente tomó las que se llevaban.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Political Opinions, Views, Coats

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). "Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)", p.8, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.

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• There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

  George Orwell

  People, Phrases, Trouble

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• I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Thinking, West Indies

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• Nunca he mirado a los ojos de mi hermana. Nunca me he bañado sola. Nunca he estado en la hierba por la noche y he levantado los brazos hacia la luna seductora. Nunca he usado el baño de un avión. Ni me he puesto un sombrero. Ni me han besado así. Nunca he conducido un coche. Ni dormido toda la noche. Nunca una charla privada. Ni un paseo en solitario. Nunca me he subido a un árbol. O desvanecerme en una multitud. Tantas cosas que nunca he hecho, pero oh, cómo me han amado. Y, si así fuera, viviría mil vidas como yo, para ser amado tan exponencialmente.

  Lori Lansens

  Avión, Ojo, Luna

  Lori Lansens (2009). "The Girls", p.1, Vintage Canada

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• The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Personality, Flesh, Statistics

  "Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta". Libro de Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

  Saint Augustine

  Wings, People, Research

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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• If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

  Dean Koontz

  Beach, Memories, Broken

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mercy, Fine, Tempting

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.155, Hamilton Books

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• What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Heart, Men

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). "El mundo de Cocteau: antología de escritos", Owen

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• ... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

  Dean Koontz

  Crowns, Bitterness

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• Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

  Kij Johnson

  Years, Waiting, Months

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• Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, House, Gentleman

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.488, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• No hacía ni una semana que vivía allí cuando mis pies recorrieron un sendero desde mi puerta hasta la orilla del estanque; y aunque han pasado cinco o seis años desde que lo pisé, sigue siendo bastante claro. Es cierto que temo que otros hayan caído en él, contribuyendo así a mantenerlo abierto. La superficie de la tierra es blanda e impresionable por los pies de los hombres; y lo mismo ocurre con los caminos que recorre la mente. ¡Cuán gastadas y polvorientas deben estar las carreteras del mundo, cuán profundas las roderas de la tradición y la conformidad!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doors, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). "Walden", p.300, Bibliolis Books

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