Quotes About Lain

#1. If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Rumi

#2. Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

Joaquin Miller

#4. He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

Flannery O'Connor

#5. They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Henry James

#7. She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthly bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man.

Meljean Brook

#9. Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for three young people, and I confess that if I had been told that it was my home I probably would have lain on the bales of hay and thrown a temper tantrum.

Lemony Snicket

#10. He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him, were closed against him.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. I told him, "The writing instinct has always lain dormant in me. Now it is in the process of metamorphosis. The era of transition has passed. I am on the threshold of expression."
He said, "Balls.

John Fante

#12. For not in quiet English fields
Are these, our brothers, lain to rest,
Where we might deck their broken shields
With all the flowers the dead love best.

Oscar Wilde

#13. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.

Arthur W. Pink

#14. She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.

Clarice Lispector

#15. People like Lain have lived in the dark so long, when they see light, they tend to close their eyes.

Joseph R. Lallo

#16. Though the whole troop wore white garments, no two whites were alike amoung them. Some approached pure blanching, some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which has possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadavourous tint, and to a georgian style.

Thomas Hardy

#17. Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me
this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?

Anne Reeve Aldrich

#18. It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

Sophocles

#19. For the past couple of nights when I'd lain down beside her, after she'd called asleep and I knew she couldn't hear me, I'd promised her that she'd never have to forgive me again if she could do it one last time.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#20. Once in, when did one fall out of love? It had taken several weeks back in October - though it seemed the feeling had merely lain dormant instead of going away altogether. How long would it take this time? And when would it be gone forever?

Mary Balogh

#21. He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

Charles Dickens

#22. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace

#23. Fearless
the cobweb swings from the ceiling
Indolent Housewife
in Daisies
lain!

Emily Dickinson

#24. And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#25. Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

E.L. Doctorow

#26. After he had lain still there about an hour he heard a low and seemingly very distant sound, but singularly grand and impressive, unlike anything he had ever heard, gradually swelling and increasing as if it would have a universal and memorable ending, a sullen rush and roar.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Horace Mann

#28. The sudden screaming of women woke Tuco, who might have gone unnoticed had he lain quietly beneath the stone lip of the well.

Brian Fox

#29. Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Eric Alterman

#30. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.

Madeline Miller

#32. I wondered what sort of man - or woman, perhaps? - had lain here, leaving no more than an echo of their bones, so much more fragile than the enduring rocks that sheltered them.

Diana Gabaldon

#33. that I thought of you - of the air that slipped
between the strands of your hair, and blue stones
in my hand, before the autumn damasks

bloom their last, before these blue stones are lain
forgotten as the blossoms of plum trees
I could not render in my artless hands

John Daniel Thieme

#34. All day the darkness and the cold
Upon my heart have lain
Like shadows on the winter sky
Like frost upon the pane

John Greenleaf Whittier

#35. For the rest of the night, all I could think about was how many heads had lain on those pillows before my own.

Sara Gruen

#36. There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

Edwin Muir

#37. And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Hans Christian Andersen

#38. How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner

#39. To Strange's unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he had been the Captain he would have spoken to her sternly and made her get up again.

Susanna Clarke

#40. The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.

George Orwell

#41. I don't think I'd feel any more violated if he'd stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.

Siobhan Davis

#42. And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Ernst Toller

#43. Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

John Locke

#44. It seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while she slept, felt her heart beating through her skin to mine.
it was a lifetime ago. everything was different.

Lauren Oliver

#45. The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

William Graham Sumner

#46. I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

James Salter

#47. Those memories and his feelings for her, had lain dormant but not forgotten.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#48. The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

Henry David Thoreau

#49. Long hast thou lain in dreams of war - Lift from the dark your eyeless gaze! Stand beneath the sky once more, Where seas of suns spill all ablaze!

Anonymous

#50. It was as if her body had lain dormant, waiting for the right man to come along and awaken her to her erotic potential.

Kitty Thomas

#51. It was the softest bed she had ever lain in. But then, it was the only bed she had ever lain in.

Colson Whitehead

#52. One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
- Memory

W.B.Yeats

#53. She was older, no longer the wicked limber girl with the stalled Vespa, but no less beautiful to me for that: whatever elliptical beauty Cassie possesses has always lain not in the vulnerable planes of color and texture but deeper, in the polished contours of her bones.

Tana French

#54. If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

Martha Grimes

#55. Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

#56. We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

Igor Markevitch

#57. And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily or said it truly meaning him, the name she was screaming and saying was not his at all.

Toni Morrison

#58. As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

Arthur Symons

#59. How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them. That is the end of battle, and once a man has tasted it, how hesitant he is to lift another spoonful to his lips.

R.W. Schmidt

#60. Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Mary Ellen Chase

#61. Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

#62. A comfortable quiet falls over us. Really comfortable, like we've lain on filthy floors corpselike together for several lifetimes now.

Jandy Nelson

#63. ...down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.

A.E. Housman

#64. How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Jules Verne

#65. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#66. The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

William Gurnall

#67. Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.

William Melmoth

#68. 'Give me a break. You're smart; you're capable. You even have a disturbing streak of honesty, which you occasionally acknowledge. And I suppose some people wouldn't mind looking at you.'

Tara Lain

#69. I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.

Chasey Lain

#70. A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

Chasey Lain

#71. The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Douglas Lain

#72. I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

Chasey Lain

#73. I have my FaceBook. And if you're naughty, I'll banish you from my kingdom on there.

Chasey Lain

#74. 'I want your light to chase his darkness [ ... ] The best way to get rid of a nightmare is with a dream come true.'

Tara Lain

#75. In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Douglas Lain

#76. If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

Douglas Lain

#77. 'It would be great not to have to deal with any of this. When I found out, I wished Killian could have wiped my memories so I wouldn't have to know that all this shit exists. I was like, "Vampires can get rid of memories. What are you good for?" But it is what it is.'

Tara Lain

#78. Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

Douglas Lain

#79. Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do.

Chasey Lain

#80. Let's face it -- if I could scrap in a full-length bodysuit, I would.

Lain Ehmann

#81. While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.

Douglas Lain

#82. If no one remembers you, you never existed.

Lain

#83. The resume focuses on you and the past. The cover letter focuses on the employer and the future. Tell the hiring professional what you can do to benefit the organization in the future. (12)

Joyce Lain Kennedy

#84. Why are you doing this?" Rod asked. "You hate gay men like me."
Hunter shrugged. "There are no men like you, gay or otherwise.

Tara Lain

#85. Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

Douglas Lain

#86. What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

Douglas Lain

#87. You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

Chasey Lain

#88. You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless( ... )

Tara Lain