Quotes About Idyll

#1. One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Saul Friedlander

#2. I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

Emile Hirsch

#3. The end of the idyll was implicit in the beginning: I at least knew that, though you might not. And also that the more enchanted the idyll the greater must be the pain of its ending. That won't endure. Hearts don't really break, you know.

Georgette Heyer

#4. Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

Charles Eastman

#6. So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#7. The adage: "He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom," could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though

Paramahansa Yogananda

#8. An old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

Milan Kundera

#9. I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

Carole Seymour-Jones

#10. Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life?

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

Joanne Harris

#12. There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

Alice Oswald

#13. The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

Georgette Heyer

#14. If you will not meditate, your mind will not accept what the Spirit of God is revealing to you

Sunday Adelaja

#15. As the political sky darkened, the court was lost in a last idyll of pleasure gardens, courtesans and mushairas, or poetic symposia, Sufi devotions and visits to pirs, as literary and religious ambition replaced the political variety.

William Dalrymple

#16. Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Rufus Sewell

#17. People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

Kevin Spacey

#18. The idyll ended, as idylls must.

Philip Zaleski

#19. No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.

Milan Kundera

#20. What tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and his sweet and charming Christine! ... What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again? ...

Gaston Leroux

#21. Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.

Marilyn Grey

#22. As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Jane Asher