Paroxysm Quotes

#1. She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture.

George Saunders

#2. I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

Robert Burns

#3. I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.

Rachel Hartman

#4. Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Hippocrates

#5. And just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.

James Herriot

#6. But this bus was a bit too full. The driver only appeared to control the glass and metal around him. In reality, he was at the nose of a travelling paroxysm.

Graham Spaid

#7. I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

Rex Stout

#8. I would have appreciated the satisfaction of a carnal paroxysm - in my experience, they bring a sparkle to the eye as well as brightness to the complexion and a spring to the step - but using Stoker to achieve that end was a means I could not begin to contemplate.

Deanna Raybourn

#9. Being pretty is its own paroxysm.

Justine Monikue

#10. A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.

Anais Nin

#11. Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Nick Nolte

#12. That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#13. There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Carmichael

#14. His mood-ring eyes were neutral gray, summer clouds that threatened no rain.

Cara McKenna

#15. Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Anatole Broyard

#16. The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

#17. fear is a liar. Don't let it whisper in your ear. Turn that shit off. Do what scares you. Over and over again. And one day, your fear will become so small, you'll be able to laugh at it." "Big

Leylah Attar

#18. Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.

Coco J. Ginger

#19. Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.

Vera Nazarian

#20. Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Jerry Spinelli

#21. At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.

Giles Foden

#22. Courage is what is needed now, courage and stealth, for there is much to fight for and much to let go.

Lisa O'Donnell