P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some shouted, some wept, some wrote, some sketched and many conspired about their coming interrogation. But mostly they did no more than stare into space, eyes unfocused as they tried to see tomorrow.”
Source: SS-GB
“Perhaps her giant bright-eyed sister had finally come to put her out of her misery just when things had gotten interesting.”
Source: Enchanted
“perhaps her home was not where
she was born but where she chose to die”
Source: 10 Minutes 38 Second in this Strange World & How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
“Perhaps her mind simply did not want to stop at one thought—just as a bird that soars with ease, which sees endless horizons, and to which all space, all the depth, all the joy of the soft and caressing azure are accessible.”
Source: Seven Who Were Hanged
“Perhaps her requirements were too great,
Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,
For her attempts to form a friendship had always
Ended in disappointment.”
Source: Claudia
“Perhaps her sudden inexplicable anxiety had been spawned by her mother’s whining about Dusty’s supposed paucity of ambition and about his lack of what Sabrina deemed an adequate education. Martie was afraid that her mother’s venom would eventually poison her marriage. Against her will, she might start to see Dusty through her mother’s mercilessly critical eyes. Or maybe Dusty would begin to resent Martie for the low esteem in which Sabrina held him.
In fact, Dusty was the wisest man Martie had ever known. The engine between his ears was even more finely tuned than her father’s had been, and Smilin’ Bob had been immeasurably smarter than his nickname implied. As for ambition… Well, she would rather have a kind husband than an ambitious one, and you’d find more kindness in Dusty than you’d find greed in Vegas.”
Source: False Memory
“Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.”
“Perhaps his demons were quite other.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.”
“Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Perhaps his only vice was self-satisfaction--which few will admit to be a vice; remonstrance never reached him; to himself he was ever in the right, judging himself only by his sentiments and vague intents, never by his actions; that these had little correspondence never struck him; it had never even struck him that they ought to correspond.”
Source: Mary Marston
“Perhaps his soul had made it over the fence, and only his body was left behind.”
Source: The Pull of the Moon
“Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.”
“Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.”
“Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.”
“Perhaps 'home' can be where one comes from, as well as where one lives.”
Source: Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
“Perhaps home, like the moon will follow wherever she goes.”
Source: The Immortalists
“Perhaps honourable men who rescued damsels in distress because of their chivalry and not a prospect of the said damsel's good graces still existed in this world.”
Source: Sky Ice
“Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.”
“Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.”
Source: Tinkers
“Perhaps human beings are incapable of living without experiencing the blue-tinged taste of loss, failure, and regret. If incidents of remorse, shame, and guilt are unavoidable, perhaps the most we can hope for is to suffer from the type of regrets that hurt least. Sydney Smith (1771-1845), an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric said, ‘Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe.”
Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
“Perhaps hunting, on which male anthropologists place so much weight, gave men a sense of identity, responsibility, and power.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Perhaps Hurston saw in her mother, Lucy, a version of Persephone, who is so missed when she's gone that the world literally starts to die. This type of grief, as Toni Morrison writes in Sula, has no top and no bottom, "just circles and circles of sorrow.”
Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.”
Source: BRING ME A UNICORN
“Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my anger and my pain and they will feed me.”
Source: Savage Her Reply
“Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.”
“Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.”
“Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.”
“Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have my day in the sun.”
Source: The Desert Spear
“Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”
“Perhaps I am following in the footsteps of François Mitterrand, who really did want to shape Europe. My predecessors, by contrast, thought it was best to say nothing at all and to keep all their options open. That may sound like a tactical approach, but perhaps it was simply because they didn't have any ideas for Europe at all.”
“Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
“Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?”
“Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!”
“Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.”
“Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.”
Source: Gineger My Story
“Perhaps I am overly sensitive to his actions, after all, he is a man before he is a monster, yet I cannot help feeling perturbed by the ivory points of his fangs which are on the verge of peaking past his fleshy lips.”
Source: Blood Sipper
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
“Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.”
Source: Slapstick or Lonesome No More
“Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man.”
Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.”
“Perhaps I can best explain by presenting these three somewhat arcane principles of depth psychology and then go on to unpack them and give you examples.
I. It's not about what it's about.
II. What you see if a compensation for what you don't see.
III. All is metaphor.”
Source: Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
“Perhaps I can best explain by presenting these three somewhat arcane principles of depth psychology and then go on to unpack them and give you examples.
I. It's not about what it's about.
II. What you see is a compensation for what you don't see.
III. All is metaphor.”
Source: Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
“Perhaps I can carry my home on my back, if home is nothing but this cocoon, in which I can write and feel fine.”
“Perhaps I can follow a heroic existential nihilist’s sterling example of surviving the harshness of reality by employing an attentive narrative examination of my recalcitrant life to extract shards of personal truth and elicit a synthesizing purposefulness of my being from the darkness, anarchy, and chaos of existence. Perhaps through the act of engaging in a deliberative examination of the ontological mystery of being and investigating the accompanying stark brutal doubt that renders a materialistic life intolerably senseless, absurd, and meaningless, I can confront the baffle of being and establish a guiding set of personal values to live by in an indifferent world. Perhaps by using the contemplative tools of narrative storytelling, I can strictly scrutinize the key leaning rubrics veiled within an array of confusing personal life experiences. Perhaps by engaging in a creative act of discovery I can blunt the pain and anguish that comes from the nightmarish experience of suffering from an existential crisis.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls