Undreaming Quotes & Sayings

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. — Jules Verne

The world makes room for passionate people. — Lewis Howes

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. — Ronald Reagan

I suffered unbearable torture in silence, weeping internallyat the sad turn of events, blaming myself bitterly again and again for having delved into the supernatural without first acquiring a fuller knowledge of the subject and providing against the dangers and risks of the path. — Gopi Krishna

As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch of the past rubbing against the present. — Greg Iles

It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky. — Iain M. Banks

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter. — Noel Gallagher

And if you haven't got honor and pride, then nothing matters. Only there is something in you that doesn't care about honor and pride yet that lives, that even walks backward for a whole year just to live; that probably even when this is over and there is not even defeat left, will still decline to sit still in the sun and die, but will be out in the woods, moving and seeking where just will and endurance could not move it, grubbing for roots and such - the old mindless sentient undreaming meat that doesn't even know any difference between despair and victory. — William Faulkner

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born. — George Eliot

I'm not sure it is possible to articulate grief through language. You can say, I was so sad I thought my bones would collapse. I thought I would die. But language always falls short of the body when it comes to the intensity of corporeal experience. The best we can do is bring language in relationship to corporeal experience-bring words close to the body-as close as possible. Close enough to shatter them. Or close enough to knock a body out. To bring language close to the intensity of experiences like love or death or grief or pain is to push on the affect of language. Its sounds and grunts and ecstatic noises. The ritual sense of language. Or the cry. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. — Swami Vivekananda

The only evidence I had at all that Rhys remained on the premises were the blank copies of the alphabet, along with several sentences I was to write every day, swapping out words, each one more obnoxious than the last:

Rhysand is the most handsome High Lord.
Rhysand is the most delightful High Lord.
Rhysand is the most cunning High Lord. — Sarah J. Maas

Did you chase it away?" she asked.
"What?"
"Whatever was making you want to drink that much."
He closed his eyes. Beth. "No," he said "but I might be done trying. — Rainbow Rowell

I want to get out of the major opera houses. — Renee Fleming

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter. — J.G. Ballard