Seepage Quotes & Sayings

No one ... can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people. — Chris Kraus

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly. — Richard Armour

Eureka' Colin said, and only in saying it did he realize he had just successfully whispered. — John Green

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. — Swami Vivekananda

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. — Irving Layton

BRUCE STERLING Homo sapiens declared extinct, Nature, November 11, 1999:
Since I've been asked to offer an epitaph," the highly distributed poetware continued, "I believe that we should rearrange the Great Wall of China to spell out (in Chinese of course, since most of them were always Chinese)
'THEY WERE VERY, VERY CURIOUS, BUT NOT AT ALL FAR-SIGHTED. — Bruce Sterling

Most black people are anti-racist (even those who have internalized racial self-hatred) and will not argue that whites are better, superior, and should rule over us. Yet most black people are not anti-sexist (even those whose life circumstance may make it impossible for them to rigidly conform to sexist roles) and will argue the natural superiority of men, supporting their right to dominance in the family and in the world outside the home. — Bell Hooks

I don't think of you as perfect.
"Oh ... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of
all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties- — Penny Reid

Each October I walk into the woods
looking for bones: rabbit skulls,
a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer
with the blood bleached out. What died
in the lush of roses and mint
shines out from the tangle of twigs
that bind it to the place
of its last leaping. The living lack
that kind of clarity. In late April,
when the water spreads out and out
till everything is lilies and seepage,
there is only the mystery of tracks,
a rustle receding in the many reeds.
And so the bones accumulate
across my windowsill: the flightless
wings and exaggerated grins,
the silent unmoving reminders
of where the glories of April lead. — Charles Rafferty

And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself no no, it's gonna be fine. There's gonna be more songs, it's all good. — Dan Mangan

His sadness was unbearable to watch. Far worse than his rage. He looked so defeated in that sorrow - like he was surrendering, like the battle was too much. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

As soon as he was half-awake he slipped his knickers off. Holding them close to his face, he handled them loosely for a moment with an absent expression, then suddenly buried his nose in them, his dark eyes huge, his face monstrous with the wisdom of evil. As well as the blood and the seepage from last night's ejaculation he had shit himself lavishly in his sleep, a sloppy, yellow liquid. Having spent a while burying his face in them, he folded the knickers up and put them carefully to one side on top of a stack of others. He would never wash them; he would never wear them again. Every secretion that had occurred in his underclothes, before, during, or sometimes just after a moment of action was a souvenir to be preciously kept and safeguarded. — Derek Raymond

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish. — Phil Jones

I launched into a discourse on the gradual contraction of medieval oaths invoking the Virgin Mother Mary's menstrual blood and the seepage of Christ's wounds, astounded to find any use for my college study of medieval literature. — Hope Jahren

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong. — Patrick Carney

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking. — Victor Burgin

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage. — Nicholson Baker

The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless. — Seamus Heaney

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment. — Rajneesh

Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.
She must do what was necessary to save the crown - and her future. — Sarah J. Maas

Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go. — Jennifer L. Armentrout