Parenthesis Quotes

#1. Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn't meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.

Lene Fogelberg

#2. Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

C.S. Lewis

#3. It is hereby certified that the bearer, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the
said night at Satan's ball, having been summoned there in the capacity of a means of transportation ... make a parenthesis, Hella, in the parenthesis put "hog". Signed - Behemoth.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#4. And death i think is no parenthesis.

E. E. Cummings

#5. A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Elias Canetti

#6. You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

Alexander MacLaren

#7. There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.

Jimmy Page

#8. ...a person can't tame God.
He's wild as a lion.
He'll haunt you.

Pamela Porter

#9. Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis; ...

Muriel Spark

#10. There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

John L'Heureux

#11. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Anonymous

#12. The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

#13. Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Sonia Rykiel

#14. If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

John Donne

#15. Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

John Donne

#16. LIFE IS NOT A PARAGRAPH. I think about the bundle of clothes on the side of the track and I feel as though my throat is closing up. Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis. EVENING

Paula Hawkins

#17. Hello slash query is all well? parenthesis enquiry after suitability of timing slash insinuations of warmness sixty percent insinuations of belief that interlocutor has topic to be discussed forty percent blah blah." I raised an eyebrow. "It was pointless.

China Mieville

#18. Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Thomas Browne

#19. Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Wayne Dyer

#20. Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

Wilfred Trotter

#21. We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Paulo Coelho

#22. The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis

John Irving

#23. We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity
this brief parenthesis of being
is all we have. Celebrate it.

Jonah Lehrer

#24. For life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.

E. E. Cummings

#25. It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

James Fenimore Cooper

#26. A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

John Berger

#27. My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

Sting

#28. When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

Alan Alda

#29. We are returning to the archaic, that is, the eternal condition of mankind, which the brief parenthesis of 'modernity' made us forget, in other words, the rivalry of peoples, of ethnic and cultural blocs and of civilisations.

Guillaume Faye

#30. Almost without exception the most beautiful, selfless people I've met are ones who've experienced personal tragedy.

Donald Miller

#31. I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

Jonathan Franzen

#32. I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Mario Benedetti

#33. I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Gail Devers

#34. Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)

Paula Hawkins

#35. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.

Thomas Browne

#36. What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

Sylvia Plath