Top 100 Clings Quotes
#1. A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.
Paul Washer
#2. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: It's loveliness increases: it will never pass into nothingness. Pleasure is oft a visitant, but pain clings cruelty to us.
John Keats
#3. In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.
Jacquetta Hawkes
#4. Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.
Carlos Castaneda
#5. Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him.
George Eliot
#6. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#7. The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
Walter Cronkite
#8. In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
Madeleine L'Engle
#9. Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#10. The lover is the father's mirror. The brother stands between. The mirror spins, spins, spins. Blood. So much blood. He clings to the island of maybe. The bridge will have to rise from the sea. The threads are not yet in place.
Anne Bishop
#11. I like water, though. I like the way it waits, and when you touch it, it both moves away and clings to your finger. I like the way it rises, like memory, or fear.
Amy Zhang
#12. How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
Charles Spurgeon
#13. The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
Honore De Balzac
#15. Forgiveness is the frangrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.
Shay Savage
#16. When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
Sayo Masuda
#17. He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.
Suzanne Selfors
#18. You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
Anna Maxted
#19. Cling to the One who clings to nothing;
And so clinging, cease to cling.
Thiruvalluvar
#20. Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. The lights of London are burning bright across my retinas like we finally got our fireworks and I'm greedily breathing in Thea's perfume as it clings to my receptors and she wraps my soul in a heart-shaped box.
Andrew James
#22. Man had gone through hell and back, and even though he rose like a phoenix from the ashes to become the man he is, that smoke still clings to him. I can smell it. And that's what scares me. It's the fear that it's not all over.
Karina Halle
#24. He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#25. The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
Blaise Pascal
#26. Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.
Nicholas Kristof
#27. Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#28. He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indif- ference so he can maintain his role, so he'll never, ever have to show his feelings. Poor Peter, how long can he keep it up? Won't he explode from this superhuman effort?
Anne Frank
#29. Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#30. I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.
Colleen Houck
#31. As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.
Piet Mondrian
#32. KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady!
The tear drop that once stood
trembling on your lower lip
-and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion-
while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes,
I shall now wipe away, my beloved,
to free myself of remorse.
Kalidasa
#33. Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.
Melissa Etheridge
#34. Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
Amy Waldman
#35. The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#36. Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin.
Sharon Cameron
#38. I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Robinson Jeffers
#39. Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.
Frederick Lenz
#40. It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
Marjorie Holmes
#41. That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.
Rick Perlstein
#42. Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.
Shelly Crane
#44. Sadness clings to you like a cat unwilling to release its claws, so you embrace it and stroke it until it is content to sleep in your heart, until awakened by a sound, a smell, or a memory...but it never leaves you.
D.S. Mixell
#45. E continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females ... and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
Elizabeth Peters
#46. A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
Confucius
#47. No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
Lucretius
#48. Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.
Arthur Symons
#49. And what is more wretched than a man who forgets his benefits and clings to his injuries?
Seneca.
#50. But who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off?
William Faulkner
#51. what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#52. We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.
Jay Michaelson
#53. It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
Carol Bly
#54. The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
Confucius
#56. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#57. The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God ... God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.
Ann Voskamp
#58. water clings to my wrists. it has been my fragrance since birth.
Nayyirah Waheed
#59. Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Shelley
#60. My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
Ellen Klages
#61. An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot
#62. To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet,
and is carried about as a burden.
The many ghosts are always a part of them, inescapable.
Geddes MacGregor
#63. Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
Georg Buchner
#64. The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller
#65. Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Gustave Flaubert
#66. Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
Alice Miller
#67. Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.
Anais Nin
#68. The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
Tacitus
#69. The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.
Ezra Pound
#70. Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
Ramakrishna
#71. Some people ask me whether I'm a "mama's girl" or a "papa's girl". I'm *nobody's* girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.
Hayden Panettiere
#73. In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
Jonathan Raban
#74. There is an old Chinese proverb: 'A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Ashwin Sanghi
#75. Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.
Willis Regier
#76. Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.
- Frankenstein p115
Mary Shelley
#77. To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.
Eric Hoffer
#78. How stubborn life is,
It clings like silver in our souls.
Scott Hastie
#79. Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#80. The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.
Carl Jung
#81. Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken.
Lauren Beukes
#82. What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them
or they cling to her
as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.
Patricia A. McKillip
#83. In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.
Anthony Trollope
#84. When an individual develops his heaven nature, he shines like the sun. Such a person keeps conscious of, and clings to, what is good and great within himself.
Carol K. Anthony
#85. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
Gautama Buddha
#86. The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.
Grace King
#87. The heart that serves, and loves, and clings, Hears everywhere the rush of angel wings.
Lettie B. Cowman
#88. Anxiety is unable to relax in the face of chaos; continuous prayer clings to the Father in the face of chaos.
Paul E. Miller
#89. For there clings to him something that often overwhelms us
memory, a recollection that whatever we're striving for now
was once closer and truer, and that its union with us was incredibly tender.
Here, everything is distance;
There, is was breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#90. I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.
Helen Vendler
#91. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
Christopher Buckley
#92. Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
Tim Jackson
#93. The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#94. During times of war.
I want to say:
I only love you,
And I cling you,
Like the peel clings to a pomegranate,
Like the tear clings to the eye,
Like the knife clings to the wound.
Nizar Qabbani
#95. The true energy of Love confidently and unwaveringly burns away all sediment that clings to story while dropping us hard into the naked and raw hum of Right Now.
Elisa Romeo
#96. The venerable cypress clings doggedly to its rocky perch, its branches spreading wide and high into the sky. 'See how it stands proudly, even in such inhospitable conditions?' our father used to say. 'This is how we must always be - strong and resilient, no matter what's around us.
Richelle Mead
#97. I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.
Shane McCrae
#98. Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell Lowell
#99. A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs.
Ki Longfellow
#100. I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
