Syllepsis Poems Quotes & Sayings

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King

I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope. — Rod McKuen

Finally I found something on the list, something vital: instant coffee. I held the red plastic container, one of the last three on the shelf, held it like the marvel that it was: the seeds inside the purple fruits of coffee plants had been harvested on Andean slopes and roasted and ground and soaked and then dehydrated at a factory in Medellin and vacuum-sealed and flown to JFK and then driven upstate in bulk to Pearl River for repackaging and then transported by truck to the store where I now stood reading the label. It was as if the social relations that produced the object in my hand began to glow within it as they were threatened, stirred inside their packaging, lending it a certain aura
the majesty and murderous stupidity of that organization of time and space and fuel and labor becoming visible in the commodity itself now that planes were grounded and the highways were starting to close. — Ben Lerner

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. — Mark Twain

You need to live a productive life — Sunday Adelaja

He who walks out of step hears another drum. — Ken Kesey

I lean up to kiss Turner's moist lips, but he pulls back and smirks down at me, touching the bare skin on my hip with gentle fingers. — C.M. Stunich

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free. — Auliq Ice

Selfie-centered person! — Ljupka Cvetanova

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. — William Carleton