O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, to be nothing!” For thousands of years this great cry has roused millions of men to revolt against desire and pain. Its dying echoes have reached this far, across centuries and oceans, to the oldest sea in the world.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Oh, to be the spitting image of her father, or a younger version of her mother. She longed to carry those pieces of them, written across her face so that none might forget those who had been so precious to her, but were nothing now.”
Source: The Paragon
“Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.”
“Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.”
“Oh to have the confidence of a young white man. "Want a tip?"
"From you, baby? I want more than the tip!"
Ugh, gross. When did high schoolers become so terrible? I make a mental note to let Mrs. Peters know that Jeremy sucks, though I’m sure that given his less-than-subtle approach to life, she has an idea.
"Don’t call women old," I tell him. "In fact, don’t call women anything. I think you’d benefit from probably not talking to women in general for 5-7 years.”
Source: Lovelight Farms
“Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.”
Source: New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire
“Oh, to hide in the shadow of your sweet wing of darkness.”
Source: Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel
“Oh, to let go of the tangible things and believe in the intangibles like
love, joy and faith. It is a hard lesson, for humans are taught that money buys stability but look, there are many rich people who are so unhappy! Look around. The world is yours for the taking. Love is its most precious resource. When we are all united in Heaven, you will value nothing that you have valued here. There is a sense of peace so deep no dream in this world has ever brought even a dim imagining of it.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!”
Source: Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
“Oh, to live in the fields, to die in the fields, repeating to yourself the one spirit-strewing word, which no one knows but he who receives that word; and it is received in silence. Here amongst themselves they all drink the wine of life, the wine of new joy — thought Piotr; the sunset here cannot be compressed into a book, and here the sunset is a mystery; in the West there are many books; in Russia there are many unspoken words. Russia is that on which the book is smashed, knowledge dissipated, and life itself burns up; on the day when the West is grafted onto Russia, a world-wide conflagration will engulf it: everything will burn that can burn, for only from the ashes of death will rise the soul of paradise, the Fire-bird.”
Source: The Silver Dove
“Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!”
Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“Oh, to see what they did to you. It would break your Captain’s heart.”
Source: Winter Soldier: The Bitter March
“Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.”
“Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian
“Oh, uh-uh," Shaundelle said. "I'm not gonna be no place where no ghost is gonna be knockin' nobody upside the head. I'm outta here. I'm not going to take any chances that some ghost is gonna mess up this pretty face.”
Source: Toe to Toe
“Oh, um...thank you, Trisha." I choke out. "That's really nice of you."
See, no big deal. She's just being nice and normal and not creepy at all.
I need to get, like, whatever is the opposite of a venti latte on the way to work today and chill the fuck out.”
Source: It's Elementary
“Oh, very well,” he said,”let her come in, by all means, but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.”
His method of tidying was peculiar, he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference. When he had got through his disgusting task, he said cheerfully, “Let the lady come in,”
Source: Dracula
“Oh, Violence, you're going to have to learn to shield against Tairn or his escapades with Sgaeyl will drive you mad- or into someone's bed.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Oh, Vos, ¿quién sois? El Eclesiástico os llama Todopoderoso; los Macabeos os nombran
Creador; la Epístola a los Efesios os llama .Libertad; Baruch os nombra Inmensidad; los Salmos
os llaman Sabiduría y Verdad; Juan os llama Luz; los reyes os nombran Señor; el Éxodo os
apellida Providencia; el Levítico, Santidad; Esdras, Justicia; la creación osllama Dios; el hombre
os llama Padre; pero Salomón os llama Misericordia, y éste es el más bello de vuestros nombres.”
“Oh, Wallace. It's . . . the sun.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“Oh, was that what you meant? I figured you were speaking of your manner of whoring. I should have known you were wanting to fuck me too.”
Source: Lover Undefined
“Oh! was there a man (but where shall I find
Good sense and good nature so equally join'd?)
Would value his pleasure, contribute to mine;
Not meanly would boast, nor would lewdly design;
Not over severe, yet not stupidly vain,
For I would have the power, tho' not give the pain.
No pedant, yet learned; no rake-helly gay,
Or laughing, because he has nothing to say;
To all my whole sex obliging and free,
Yet never be fond of any but me;
In public preserve the decorum that's just,
And shew in his eyes he is true to his trust;
Then rarely approach, and respectfully bow,
But not fulsomely pert, nor yet foppishly low.
But when the long hours of public are past,
And we meet with champagne and a chicken at last,
May ev'ry fond pleasure that moment endear;
Be banish'd afar both discretion and fear!
Forgetting or scorning the airs of the crowd,
He may cease to be formal, and I to be proud.
Till lost in the joy, we confess that we live,
And he may be rude, and yet I may forgive.
And that my delight may be solidly fix'd,
Let the friend and the lover be handsomely mix'd;
In whose tender bosom my soul may confide,
Whose kindness can soothe me, whose counsel can guide.”
“Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.”
“Oh, waters - do not cover me!
I would look long and long at those beautiful stars!
Oh my wings - lift me - lift me
I am not so dreadfully hurt...”
Source: The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield
“Oh we both have screws loose. Just fucking look at us, Dex! We're in the mountains trying to find Sasquatch and we're arguing over the llama formerly known as Twatwaffle.”
Source: Into the Hollow
“Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. I thought how terrible the nights must have been in a time when men knew the things were there and were deadly. But no, that's wrong. If I knew they were there, I would have weapons against them, charms, prayers, some kind of alliance with forces equally strong but on my side. Knowing they were not there made me defenseless against them and perhaps more afraid.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn’t just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone’s cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection.”
Source: The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
“Oh, we hd danced to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. "The Power of Love."
The POWER of LO-OVE!
But Hanne, Hanne.
Feeling her so close to me. Standing nearly as close and talking. Her laughter. Her green eyes. Her small nose.
Just before we left, on the way out, she had pinned the button on me.
That was what had happened. It wasn't much, but the little there had been was fantastic.”
Source: Min kamp 1
“Oh, we’ll see you again, Mike. Just not with the same, pretty face. I hear you’re an actor, too. Pity. Your days of wooing leading ladies are about to end.”
Source: Full Moon Saturday Night
“Oh, we take you into slaughter without a moment's thought. And yes, some of you come to enjoy it, to lust for that cacophony, that violence, the reek of blood.
And so we share with you, dear horse, our peculiar madness. But who judges us for this crime against you and your kind?
No one.
Unless you horses have a god.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“Oh, we take you into slaughter without a moment's thought. And yes, some of you come to enjoy it, to lust for that cacophony, that violence, the reek of blood.
And so we share with you, dear horse, our peculiar madness. But who judges us for this crime against you and your kind?
No one.
Unless your horses have a god.”
“Oh, we talked about CAT scan results and prostate-specific antigen levels and, among ourselves, we acknowledged that this was serious, that probably he wouldn't be around next Christmas. But we never, ever, talked about the process of his dying and how we were going to manage it. We never talked about how we would care for him, how we could keep him at home, how we might patch up any tears in our relationships with him, or how we might make his last days more comfortable. We never asked him about his fears, his needs, or his wishes so we never knew how he felt, except for what he revealed in one or two brief comments he made during those final days. We never talked about what we were about to lose, how that loss would occur, how we would say good-bye, or how very much we would miss him.”
Source: Talking About Death Wont Kill You
“Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.”
“Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound.”
“Oh, wearisome conditions of humanity!
Born under one law, to another bound,
Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity:
Created sick, commanded to be sound.
What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws—
Passion and reason, self-division’s cause?
-- from Mustapha”
Source: Poems by Fulke Greville
“Oh well, at least I'll get a 90 minute break until the next feed. That's when my lactation consultant delivered the real tit-punch. The every-90-minute stopwatch does not start from the end of one feeding. It starts from: the beginning. I've never been great at math but if you're supposed to feed a baby every 90 minutes from the moment they start eating, and the feeding takes 90 minutes, then you are feeding a baby every minute of every hour of every 24 hour day. If I could've fainted when I heard this news I would have, but since I was already dead, I couldn't. I was in a very real sense being eaten alive.”
Source: I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
“Oh, well, I know that Libby." He rolls his eyes. "I've never met anyone more committed to, well, life that you are."
"Really?" I swallow rather hard. "Even though I keep on screwing my life up?"
"Sweetheart, precisely because you keep screwing your life up! I mean look at you. You had the crappiest career eve in the world before you turned everything around and became this shit-hot jewellery designer. You set your head on fire with a cigarette and ended up being utterly adored by the guy who had to put you out... And I do adore you, by the way," he adds, in a nonchalant sort of way, "in case you ever had wondered. Oh, and then there's your love of life. Loads of girls would have just sunk...”
Source: A Night in with Grace Kelly
“Oh, well. I'll just tell her you seem to have survived it," she said.
Roger said, "Honestly, Ann-Marie!" as if surviving a loved one's death were somehow reprehensible. But the odd thing was, right at that moment I realized that I had survived it. I pictured Ann-Marie's friend waking up this morning, the first full day of her life without her husband, and I thanked heaven that I was past that stage myself. Even though I still felt a constant ache, I seemed unknowingly to have traveled a little distance away from that first unbearable pain.
I sat up straighter and drew a deep breath, and it was then that I began to believe that I really might make my way through this.”
Source: The Beginner's Goodbye
“Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?”
She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her face.
“What’s it like?”
“Hard,” she replied.”
Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.”
“Oh well, I will say here,
knowing each man,
let you find a good wife too,
and love her as hard as you can.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
“oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.”
“Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.”
Source: Rubyfruit Jungle
“Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.”
“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?”
“Oh well, whatever, nevermind.”
“Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.”
“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets