Top 90 Lurk Quotes
#2. In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
Victor Hugo
#4. We may succeed in preserving a modicum of rectitude in the performance of our public duty, but behind this facade lurk violent and sinful emotions, which are always threatening to erupt.
John R.W. Stott
#5. Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.
Herman Melville
#6. The animal is making quite a mess," the butler droned.
"Are you referring to the monkey, or to my nephew?" Fennington drawled, strolling into the room.
"Hm. How long did you lurk outside the room waiting forthat opportunity?" Bennett asked
Suzanne Enoch
#7. The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.
William Greider
#8. Dangers lurk around every corner for the strange.
Leslye Walton
#9. Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
Adrienne Rich
#10. But maybe people like me aren't supposed to be saved. Maybe I'm just destined to bear the weight of the demons that lurk among the good.
E.K. Blair
#11. You must write every single day of your life ... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads ... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Ray Bradbury
#12. That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a half-step toward the truth. Behind the next word or the next glance may lurk the demon you seek, all in flames, desperate to be held, but set to flee. (8)
Keith Ablow
#13. If you really want to be afraid for mankind, you don't even need to know who Paul Ryan is. All you have to do is lurk for five minutes by the pharmacy.
Laurie Notaro
#14. Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago. Those old-timers now lurk only in backyard gardens and on farms that specialize in direct sales
if they survive at all. Many heirlooms have been lost entirely.
Barbara Kingsolver
#15. Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
Frederick Buechner
#16. The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.
John William Strutt
#17. The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#18. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#19. Always I glance both ways.
Why chance missing love
wherever she or he may lurk?
Rod McKuen
#21. Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.
Jay McInerney
#22. Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
Margaret Atwood
#23. Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
Frank Herbert
#24. You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.
Grantland Rice
#25. I think he's handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.
Cassandra Clare
#26. He broke up with me."
"Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box."
"No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties.
Cassandra Clare
#27. Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.
Boris Beizer
#28. And Barron is probably right - we should give this up. Not for the reason he's saying but for the one that's implied. The one about it not being okay to lurk around outside buildings, spying on girls you like.
Holly Black
#29. Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.
Lois Lowry
#30. Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time...yet still I wait, revelling in their company...
Virginia Alison
#31. The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.
Carl Zimmer
#32. You see why I'm such a good vampire? We're all lying, devious bastards, not like werewolves, if there are werewolves, whose MO is, "Hi, I'm a werewolf, surprise! And fuck you!" No, we lurk. We're lurkers.
Christopher Buehlman
#33. Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
Alfred Austin
#34. It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#35. But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.
Anne Bronte
#36. Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
Susan Hill
#37. Where do dreams come from?
... they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.
Marge Piercy
#38. Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.
Jennifer Ryan
#39. This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.
Aleister Crowley
#40. The lies that lurk in the shadows of truth.
Moira Young
#41. The things that lurk inside your thoughts, though hidden sometimes they seem.
Will be revealed in the night's sweet sleep, manifested in the mind as dreams.
Reed Abbitt Moore
#42. Partridge was pretending not to lurk near the stairs. 'The body's under the desk,' I said as I passed, just to give her something to worry about.
Jodi Taylor
#43. When women cook, they're not just doing it for sustenance. An expression of rage and unhappiness and desire and sadness and pleading and pain may lurk in their dishes. Of course, the best kind is food filled with love.
Kyung-ran Jo
#44. Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.
Alden Bell
#45. The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
David Hewson
#46. Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.
Richie Norton
#47. She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.
Richard Ford
#48. A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.
Anthony Liccione
#49. We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.
Hans Zinsser
#51. Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. Henry
#52. The greatest dangers to liberty," said Mr. Brandeis, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
E.B. White
#53. Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Tiberius
#54. Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I
Harlan Ellison
#55. I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.
Robin LaFevers
#56. And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
Donald Cargill
#58. They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.
Simon Holt
#59. The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.
Sam Harris
#60. It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
Maxim Gorky
#61. No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
W.G. Sebald
#62. All things come to those who lurk. Skulking is also an option.
Alex Gabriel
#63. All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.
Richard Branson
#64. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
Ray Bradbury
#65. Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The
John Perkins
#66. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928)
Jane Mayer
#67. Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.
Edmond Rostand
#68. Do not be afraid of people who lurk in the shadows. Stand up for what you believe in. The people in the shadows are no match for people who are not afraid of light.
Alexander McCall Smith
#69. My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion ... Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.
Evelyn Waugh
#70. Sock Monsters lurk about, behind walls, in doors, behind washers and dryers!
Dalene Davies
#71. There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#72. Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.
Belle Aurora
#73. Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy ...
Oscar Wilde
#74. White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.
Katherine Losse
#75. Haven't you guessed by now? I'm a monster. I don't hide under your bed or in your closet. I don't lurk in dark corners or only come out at night.
Yolanda Olson
#76. Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#77. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
John Pope
#78. For hearts where wakened love doth lurk,
How fine, how blest a thing is work!
For work does good when reasons fail.
Jean Ingelow
#79. You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.
Epictetus
#80. Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
James Nesbitt
#81. My roommates continue to lurk in the doorway.
I find a pair of clean boxers and tug them on. "I swear to God, if you tell me you've been watching me sleep for the last hour like a bunch of creepers, I'm calling the cops.
Elle Kennedy
#82. Life is every bit as devious as Death. It too can wear a hooded coat. It too can slip into town, lurk in an alley, or wait in the back of a tavern.
Amor Towles
#83. In days and he was too late to pick up the trail at her home station. The best he could do was to lurk around the
Robert Galbraith
#85. Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.
We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.
It is laughter.
Vera Nazarian
#87. [A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk.
H.G.Wells
#88. Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.
Jeaniene Frost
#89. We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#90. Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.
Anthony Liccione
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