Quotessence
Home / Topics / Uninvited Quotes

Uninvited Quotes

Browse 40 quotes about Uninvited.

Related topics

GuestsUninvited Guests

Uninvited Quotes

“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”

WorldMindMayStatesHappinessFreedomPleasureMeditationConceptsContraryPursuitNoiseBlissFormulasState Of MindBrutalitySearching For HappinessUninvited
Book:Freedom, Love, and Action
Create image

“One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.”

GivingFeelsRunningYoungSceneHeavySmellImmenseLivelyKittenOld LadyCrocodilesUninvited
Book:Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
Create image

“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.”

KnowsEndsCountryLiteratureSadnessPaperDefensePsychologicalCarrieDestinationContestsPapersIdentificationDead EndsUninvited
Author:Martha Manning
Create image

“Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.”

MenFeelsHumansSeemsEarthLife IsHuman BeingsSituationKnowingFateStrangeFellowsSakeConnectedWorriedDaily LifeUninvitedIndebtedness
Author:Albert Einstein
Create image

“In fact, one of the funny stories from that set [of Hail, Caesar!] is we were shooting my scene, and around lunchtime, Terrence Malick shows up on set. He was uninvited and no one knew who he was. But I knew, just looking at him. I was like, "Holy moley, that's Terrence Malick!" So I went and told the PA, "Hey, Terrence Malick is here, and I think he wants to see the Coen brothers. He wants to talk to Joel and Ethan." He just showed up unannounced, uninvited, and I guess they spent their lunch hour with him.”

ThinkingWantFactsStoriesShowsHoursBrotherHolySceneHeyShootingLunchHailFunny StoryUninvitedCoen BrothersLunchtime
Author:David Krumholtz
Create image

“We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.”

WellsMomentsShowsEasyBornLove IsPartyEffortCompanyLove YouCryBarsMagazinesKitchenLove Each OtherCocktailsSay I Love YouGood CompanyCocktail PartiesUninvitedGranolaGranola Bars
Author:Shauna Niequist
Create image

“Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).”

PeopleSelfJesusChurchPartyGraceDoorsStrangeBecomingStandingResponsibleAngryKingdomsPhenomenonIronicInvitedKingdom Of GodIrresponsibleGuardingUninvitedStrange Phenomena
Author:Mike Yaconelli
Create image

“Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle”

LongPastAsksSpeakVoiceMemoriesSecretMillionsPlansStreetsFrontsFoolTerribleHolySummerLaughterReflectionMiracleWineForgottenCornersHumbleBetrayalTongueTragicBottlesScreamGuestsTeaseReviveOraclesRantStreet CornersChucklesUninvitedUninvited Guests
Author:Joanne Harris
Create image

“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”

LittlesHas BeensSelfWantedSawsPerspectiveWeightMarkPreparedDepthPainfulDawnPretendingMinorsExclusionUninvited
Book:The Rehearsal
Create image

“I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.”

ThinkingKnowsGivingKindHousePleasurePartyNovelRichSawsExpectationsSittingDinnerFinishedStoresGuestsDelightfulVisitorsDinner PartyDisruptiveBreathlessRamblingUninvitedSuitorsDelightful ThingsUninvited Guests
Author:Maile Meloy
Create image