W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?”
“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”
“Was there a more exquisite woman in all the world than the one standing before him? If so, Daniel had not met her, and never expected to.”
Source: The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
“Was there a nation in Asia that Xerxes did not take with him against Greece? Was there a river, except the greatest, that his army did not drink dry?”
Source: Histories
“Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks?”
Source: A God in Ruins
“Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts
“Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.”
“Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?”
“Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.”
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Source: NOS4R2
“Was there any love here? When he needed her, she vomited. And when you needed him, he laughed. What was unbearable is not that it fell apart, it was that there was never anything here.”
Source: The Price
“Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?”
“Was there any woman in the world quite like Nora? He was so glad she existed; even more glad there was only one of her.”
“Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?”
Source: Prelude to Foundation
“Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?”
Source: The Coming Storm
“Was there childcare for abused werewolves?”
Source: Colorado State of Mind
“Was there ever a death that involved no regret? ... more often than not, what he first heard in their moment of grief was the word 'should.”
Source: Go Ask Fannie
“Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.”
Source: Saving Fish From Drowning
“Was there ever a more empowering phrase than 'keep the change?”
Source: One Day
“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.”
Source: Locations
“Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Was there ever a time when the majority was right?”
“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”
Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?”
“Was there ever anything more predictable than human unkindness? Or more chilling than seeing how early it starts?”
Source: The Vulnerables
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before?”
Source: Run River
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?”
“Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?”
“Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?”
“Was there for me to find. Never thought it was someone. Who is the moon to my sun. A magical soul of a kind - Cosmic Irony”
Source: Coming Home
“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“Was there news of my friend? The one and only, the irredeemable from which I have learned the most.”
Source: Sensiti
“Was there no one to help? He instinctively bowed his head and prayed. A warm feeling engulfed his battered body. “I’m not alone, I will never be alone. God is with me”
Source: The Edelweiss Express
“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Was there no sunlight where he lived, no open sky to consider in dizzying wonder?”
“Was there not life in divinity? Or was that which is holy beyond life?”
Source: The Paragon
“Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?”
Source: The Laws of the Skies
“Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for? Would the bad guys always win? Are our efforts to live in peace simply doomed to failure? Will the bad guys always be bad guys? Will the good guys spend their whole lives taking punches and throwing rocks into the water with all of their might and getting nothing more in return than a ridiculous sploosh and the shame of failure?”
Source: The Laws of the Skies
“Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?”
Source: Robert Browning
“Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?”
Source: The subtle knife
“Was there really a cherubim waiting at the star watching rock, curled up into a great feathery ball, all those eyes closed in sleep?
Was he real?
What is real?”
Source: Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)
“Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?”
“Was there some deeper, level some plane upon which the consciousness of mountains responded to death and waste and pain? Was there a compassion embedded in the very rocks, so that they offered their beauty in compensation for human loss?”
Source: Walking to Mercury
“Was there something … something evil …getting at Hugo? This bizarre and unwelcome thought surfaced in his mind. Were demons and evil spirits only to be found in the bible stories, or maybe this was some sort of challenge to him to deal with without help from anyone, least of all from the One who he constantly questioned and tried to understand …”
Source: A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
“Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshly citadel strong enough to withstand the scrabbling assault of midnights? Doubts flushed him. Ice cream lived again in his throat, stomach, spine and limbs; he was instantly cold as a wind out of December gone.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Was there to be some healing after all?
Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?
Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.”
Source: Simply Love