Quotes of: Wholeness Keyword

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant g...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I suppose what I mean is, I never felt like I was part of a gang. No, that's the wrong word. Part of a MOVEMENT! That's it. It feels like there's a swirling, shining wind of change sweeping right at you, sweeping over everyone, and you're inside it. ...

Plastic Fantastic

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases merely to live in and with reality and demands a knowledge of this reality, he moves into a new and fundamentally differe...

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings ...

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It's a miniature rudder. ...

R. Buckminster Fuller

I had this dream, see, where I saw the whole world melt. I was standing on La Cienega and from there I could see the whole world and it was melting and it was just so strong and realistic like. And so I thought, Well, if this dream comes true, how ca...

Bret Easton Ellis

It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It was begun in 1937, and every part has been written many times. Hardly a word in its 600,000 or more has been unconsidered. And the placing, size, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrator: In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. Naturally, the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city in Europe. And nowhere in Paris was that stench ...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Nothing and no one in the world could kill the love I have for you. I have surrendered my whole individuality, the very essence of my being to you. I have given you my body time after time to treat as you pleased. All the hoardings of my imagination ...

Violet Trefusis

Teaching One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Caravan of Dreams

She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.

A Cry From The Deep

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

Crossing Myself: A Story of Spiritual Rebirth

To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.

Cry Of The Wolf

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Crome Yellow

Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.

Do Not Disturb

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.

A Dish of Orts

Greasy burgers and fries are so much more delicious than swallowing a cow whole.

Dragons Are People, Too

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

Deathless

... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.

Exit Ghost

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

The Essential Rumi