S Quotes
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“Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”
“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend.”
Source: Not of Our Sky
“Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.”
“Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Sometimes he wonders whether this very idea of loneliness is something he would feel at all had he not been awakened to the fact that he should be feeling lonely, that there is something strange and unacceptable about the life he has. Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have . . . Some of them ask him with pity, and some ask him with suspicion: the first group feels sorry for him because they assume singledom is not his decision but a state imposed upon him; and the second group feels a kind of hostility for him, because they think that his singlehood is his decision, a defiant violation of a fundamental law of adulthood.”
Source: A Little Life
“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
“Sometimes, he would have to hide from track workers or urban explorers. It amazed him how busy the subway tunnels could be with activity. He constantly asked himself why teenagers would want to lurk around those dark tunnels seeking adventure. What was the point? Personally, he hated being down there. Most tunnels were dark, damp, and dirty.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Sometimes he would rather battle a demon from Hell than grapple with the bureaucracy of man.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“Sometimes he would think of those moments and feel a sort of disorientation: Was that them, really, those people back then? Where had those people gone? Would they reappear? Or were they now other people entirely? And then he would imagine that those people weren't so much gone as they were within them, waiting to bob back up to the surface, to reclaim their bodies and minds; they were identities now in remission, but they would always be with them.”
Source: A Little Life
“Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.”
“Sometimes healing is not the moment everything changes. Sometimes it is the quiet decision to remain gentle with yourself while change is still unfolding.”
Source: The Belief That Healed Me
“Sometimes, healing makes you realize that you deserve better – better treatment, a better relationship, and a better life. However, the only reason you're holding onto the old is because it has become your comfort zone. Remember, magic happens when you decide that enough is enough and take action to step away from what's not serving you and your higher self.”
Source: Sometimes..: 101 Days of Healing Through Words
“Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.”
“Sometimes hearing the truth takes more courage than speaking the truth.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.”
Source: Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
“Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.”
“Sometimes, Helen felt like she had spent her whole life waiting to be “old enough” and then had crossed over into “too old” without finding out what it was she had been waiting for. It was only now, with the tingle of fire still on her fingertips and the smell of sulphur on her skin, that she felt she knew what she wanted.”
Source: Going Through The Change
“Sometimes hell has no words.”
“Sometimes helping hurts, and it isn't always you that gets hurt when it does. - The Malwatch”
“Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”
“Sometimes, Henry, remembering hurts too much.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”
Source: So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel
“Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.”
“Sometimes, his lucky green bunnyhug just wasn't enough.”
Source: DimWitts: The Big Stupid
“Sometimes history can be brutal" - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
Source: Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome
“Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.”
Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”
“Sometimes, holding grudges helps you to remember the people you should never forgive.”
“Sometimes holding on is what holds us back.”
“Sometimes holding on is what holds you back.”
“Sometimes holding on was all you could do.”
Source: Home Front: A Novel
“Sometimes holding upon is more painful
than letting it go. - Sauvik Kundu”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.”
“Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it was and odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever. I could not have what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth.”
“Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.”
“Sometimes home is a person.”
Source: Shades of Earth
“Sometimes home is full of new possibilities, you just have to look or change how you look.”
“Sometimes home is more of a memory than a place.”
Source: Rock Paper Scissors
“Sometimes home is not a place, it is someone's heart.”
“Sometimes, home is not a place. It’s the feeling of being known without needing to speak”
“Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out.”
Source: It
“Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy”
“Sometimes honour brings you insult. Sometimes shame gets you fame.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“Sometimes hope came right against suffering, though. I did need medication to get me through, I knew that. My brain says, "Hope, hope, hope," but sometimes my body says, "You're a hot mess, motherfucker." To which my brain replies, "Fuck you. I'm a superhero. Let's party." Body replies, "No, motherfucker, we can't even walk yet.”
Source: My Next Breath
“Sometimes hope can be poisonous.”
Source: Girl in the Blue Coat
“Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.”
“Sometimes, hope is all we have. Hope and trust.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.”
“Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.”
Source: A Million Worlds with You