T Quotes
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“The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like...everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him.”
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.”
“The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.”
Source: Deus Irae
“The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.”
Source: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
“The day comes with a few things to ponder on, but the night rains upon the mind a thousand thoughts.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“The day dawned blue and blurry. A light frost on the grass, a pale, clear morning. It was the first of November, and the sluagh were gone. The light trickled over the island slowly. It brushed against the ruined church spire and dripped down to the memorial, reaching into the crevices of the names writ therein. It poked through curtains and shutters to creep along countertops and kiss sleeping foreheads. It ran along the high street, knocked on the door, danced over the boats in the harbour, and made a sprint up the hill away from the village. It ricocheted through the fields and through the trees, paused reverently at the standing stones, rocketed up to the ancient cathedral where the seagulls swooped, keening.”
Source: The Wild Hunt
“The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the North will fling it wide open, while four millions of our brothers and sisters shall march out into liberty. The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men.”
Source: FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE – Astounding Life of One Incredible Man (3 Autobiographies in One Volume): The Most Important African American Leader of the 19th Century: The Escape from Slavery, Life as a World-Renowned Activist against Slavery and Racism & Political Career after the Civil War
“The day does not end when the sun sets, nor does it end at midnight. The day ends when you are mentally done with that day, if not, that day continues and you are stuck with that day!”
“The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“The day drags through though storms keep out the sun;
And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on:
Even as a broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies; and makes
A thousand images of one that was,
The same, and still the more, the more it breaks;
And thus the heart will do which not forsakes,
Living in shattered guise, and still, and cold,
And bloodless, with its sleepless sorrow aches,
Yet withers on till all without is old,
Showing no visible sign, for such things are untold.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Byron
“The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.”
“The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.”
“The day
en route to darkness. The guillotine
on the way to the neck.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.”
“The day Flag went on tour forever we set the loading dock on fire. It was a special kind of concrete that burned.
Rollins was too pissed for a tour kickoff set. We just stood on the roof til it started falling in, watching their backs get small in the heatshimmer. After a while there's just four black bars against the road. You can't ever tell what comes true.”
“The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.”
“The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.”
Source: Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory
“The day for words of love becomes the night of amorous actions that say far more! The world shifts back on its axis at dawn on February 15th.”
“The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.”
“the day had been long and her emotions were toast.”
Source: Horrorstör
“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.”
“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“The day has always been jealous of the night, because the day does not have the ability to bring people into atmospheres where the deepest mysteries can be experienced!”
“The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
Sometimes, our pain is very deep and real, and we stand before her very silent, because there is no language for our pain, only a moan. Night's heart is full of pity for us: she cannot ease our aching; she takes our hand in hers, and the little world grows very small and very far away beneath us, and, borne on her dark wings, we pass for a moment into a mightier Presence than her own, and in the wondrous light of that great Presence, all human life lies like a book before us, and we know that Pain and Sorrow are but angels of God.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.”
“The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.”
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.
I knew that a part of him would never be the same.
They cracked more than his ribs.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“The day he first told me he was starting to disappear I didn't believe him & so he stopped & held his hand up to the sun & it was like thin paper in the light & finally I said you seem very calm for a man who is disappearing & he said it was a relief after all those years of trying to keep the pieces of his life in one place. Later on, I went to see him again & as I was leaving, he put a package in my hand. This is the last piece of my life, he said, take good care of it & then he smiled & was gone & the room filled with the sound of the wind & when I opened the package there was nothing there & I thought there must be some mistake or maybe I dropped it & I got down on my hands & knees & looked until the light began to fade & then slowly I felt the pieces of my life fall away gently & suddenly I understood what he meant & I lay there for a long time crying & laughing at the same time.
—Disappearing”
Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
“The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.”
Source: Serious Concerns
“The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.”
“The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.”
Source: DUNE
“The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.”
“The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.”
“The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.”
“The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.”
“The day I balanced myself
Life has layered around me”
Source: UNSETTLED
“The day I became a writer
it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex
in exchange for one of my books
which happened often and more and more
as time went on
it wasn't the first time someone
actually paid for one of my books
which happens less and less
as time goes on
It was the day I realized
that everything is created by man
God, Satan, Judas, phobias, excrement, even death
even women
everything is created by man
So I said to myself
shit, let me make something
let me tape together some words
and sentences
and prose
and predicates
and the residual shit that sticks to my ass after I wipe
and compose a new kind of thing
But then I realized that others had discovered this
for themselves as well
And suddenly the world became a jungle
Where everyone eats each other alive
And shits out the same shit”
Source: Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories
“The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking”
Source: I Need To Stop Drinking!
“The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.”
“The day I bought my cane, I realized
I was through with the burden of feet. Instead,
I am going to become a mermaid.
I have always liked the ocean, the promise
of depth. I am tired of this dry world,
all of this dust and sickness, these barren fields.
I want to dive without drowning. I want to kiss sharks.
I want men to carve me into the bows of their ships
like a prayer, before I lure them into the depths
with my fishnet mouth. I want the beauty,
the gorgeous mutation, the fairytale of half body.
All the wisdom of a woman, without the failures of sex.
I am plunging. I am not coming up for air.
I do not want all this human,
my legs move like they resent being legs,
my body is wrecked by all this gravity.
I cannot face another morning waking up
with no hope of a fairytale. Here on land,
I am always drowning. Here on land,
I cannot move.”
“The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. I guess it should have been obvious to everyone right then that I wasn't going to have a normal life.”
Source: Dread Nation
“The day I can't pull something useful out of my ass is the day I quit sticking things up my ass.”
“The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.”
Source: The Angel's Game
“The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“The day I died is the day I began to survive...”
Source: Borderline: A Poetic Memoir
“The day I died was also the day that made me realize that there’s more to people’s emotions and how they deal with the death of others.”
“The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.”
Source: Idle Thursday
“The day I fall in love with you for real will be the same day they open up a ski resort in Hell.”
“Splendid. That can be our first date.” He flashed me a grin which, even in the dark, managed to sparkle.”
Source: The Importance of Getting Revenge
“The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.”