Imminence Quotes

#1. She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.

James Baldwin

#2. That imminence of a revelation that is not yet produced, is perhaps the aesthetic reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William James

#4. Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Susan Sontag

#5. We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Louis Kronenberger

#6. Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. With a strong sense of the imminence of death, you will feel the need to engage in spiritual practice, improving your mind and not wasting your time on various distractions ranging from eating and drinking to endless talk about war, romance, and gossip.

Dalai Lama XIV

#9. Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Kate Atkinson

#10. Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

James Allen

#11. Oh, wait. You're threatening us?' Her smile returned, a delightful expression filled with spring sunshine, heartfelt joy, and the imminence of wholesale slaughter.

Jonathan L. Howard

#12. An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When

James MacDonald

#13. on him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence

Colleen McCullough

#14. You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

Dalai Lama

#15. Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

#16. O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

Samuel Wilberforce

#17. he had kindness where other people had lungs,

Katherine Rundell

#18. What have you got against people?"
Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. "Too many opinions.

Laura Ruby

#19. Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessed
than one who is ungrateful for a loaf.

Matshona Dhliwayo