Painlessly Quotes

#1. For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

James Gleick

#2. To dance is not to jump to your feet and rise painlessly in the air like dust. To rise above both worlds is to dance in the blood of your pain and give up your life.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#3. The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

Irving Chernev

#4. He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.

Jon Krakauer

#5. And there, in the background, the brite spring sky's sediment had sunk to a dark band of blue. Ah, it mesmerized me ... like the snow had done. All the woe of the words, "I am" seemed dissolved there, painlessly, peacefully.
Hae-Joo announced, "The Ocean.

David Mitchell

#6. The music passed in an instant, as the first bars of sudden music always did, over the fantastic fabrics of his mind, dissolving them painlessly and noiselessly as a sudden wave dissolves the sandbuilt turrets of children.

James Joyce

#7. The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void.

Glen Duncan

#8. (Brigit on getting a splinter)
"Such particles are frightfully exasperating to extricate painlessly."
Bracy let out a low sigh, "There she goes again.

Nicole Sager

#9. Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.

Francesco Redi

#12. And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing alone, to drink my tea and to think merely of the worries of today and my hopes for tomorrow, which can be brooded over painlessly.

Marcel Proust

#13. I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

Eric Brown

#15. She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she'd ever meant by the word.

Zadie Smith

#16. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.

Robert D. Maurer

#17. Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

Yehuda Amichai

#18. A nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear

Joseph Heller

#19. One does not become fully human painlessly.

Rollo May

#20. And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everyting, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Annie Dillard

#21. He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.

Richard Yates

#22. I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

A.C. Grayling

#23. Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Rumi

#24. All the woe of the words 'I am' seemed dissolved there, painlessly, peacefully.

David Mitchell

#25. I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Stephen Chbosky

#26. The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.

Harold Bloom

#27. I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them, and in those cases I just have to handle them accordingly. But I do not swim with sharks ... sharks swim with sharks.

Rihanna

#28. If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

Simon Sinek

#29. Things are never really falling apart; they're just sort of getting reorganized.

Art Hochberg

#30. Ill show you a Sweet dream

Matsuri Hino

#31. I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.

Alan Alda

#32. I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Pope John Paul II

#33. Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.

Nicola J. McDonagh

#34. Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace
unstrung
Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#35. So if it resonates with fans - and that's always the bottom line, fans have the final say - then I'm sure we'll see more of it. I'd be honored to do it. I saw the first one today, and I cracked up. I literally laughed out loud. I saw how the sausage was made, and I still laughed.

Phil Morris

#36. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves

Mike Bartos