Subside Quotes

#1. When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#2. No one keeps himself waiting; and yet the greatest cure for anger is to wait, so that the initial passion it engenders may die down, and the fog that shrouds the mind may subside, or become less thick.

Seneca.

#3. One day, I tell myself, the sting will subside and I'll be able to look at a fucking orange and not think of her.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe life is about living with the hauntings.

Tarryn Fisher

#4. The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. Are you sulking?"
"Me? No. I don't sulk."
"You sound like you're sulking."
"I'm just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

Derek Landy

#6. I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Barry Mann

#7. If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

Albert Camus

#8. If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. Besides, he realized, he could not leave the house without a coat, not because of the rain - he did not mind getting wet - but because of the bulge in front of his clothing that would not subside. He

Ken Follett

#11. Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.

Imran Khan

#12. The moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome.

Larry McMurtry

#13. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.

Eric Thomas

#14. If you venture to be a sage
Let your virtues subside your rage
For deep wisdom you'll be venerated
Let cold veins feel blood cells generated

Munia Khan

#15. Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

Wes Fesler

#16. He waited for chaotic games to end, for shouts to subside. His favorite moments were when he was alone, or felt alone. Lying in bed in the morning, watching sunlight flickering like a restless bird on the wall.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#17. You're my light, Amanda. In a life full of shadows, and darkness, and monsters, you're my light. When the blackness fades, and the memories subside, you'll be there. You're always there.

Jay McLean

#18. And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as penilosophy.

Zack Love

#19. Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Harold Bloom

#20. 'Can you tell me,' Willim said, the heat in his face unwilling to subside, 'just when I lost my mind? Was it recent, or have I always been an idiot?'

L.S. Baird

#21. Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

Grant Cardone

#22. Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intelligence would subside into it like its own spirit.

Wendell Berry

#23. In general, substance-induced mania will subside within four weeks.

Ken Dickson

#24. Obsessions don't subside. They evolve.

Alex Crimson

#25. It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Charles Albert Gobat

#26. Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

Plutarch

#27. Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Lance Armstrong

#28. Sometimes truth comes along with a little pain. The pain will subside eventually,
and the truth shall remain.

Cameron Jace

#29. I rarely feel like I'm in chaos, but when I am, I usually [retreat] and try to find the eye of the storm; if I'm still and listen and don't engage, maybe the chaos will subside.

Mike Colter

#30. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

#31. The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

Barbara Fredrickson

#32. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.

Shikha Kaul

#33. If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James Buchan

#34. Psychological observations of the prisoners have shown that only the men who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influences.

Viktor E. Frankl

#35. My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.

Charlotte Bronte

#36. A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery

Penelope Lively

#37. But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside.

Sam Harris

#38. Clasping her to him, he hugged her for a long while and she felt his guilt and fear subside. "Do you want to see something very special - something magical?"
Giggling she whispered, "You already showed me that this morning."
He swatted her bottom. "Minx! Not that!

Charlotte Featherstone

#39. If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

Julie Andrews Edwards

#40. Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Rene Char

#41. With a quick twist to her heart, Cress's fear of him began to subside. She'd been right back at the boutique. He was like the hero of a romance story, and he was trying to rescue his beloved. His alpha.

Marissa Meyer

#42. The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,
whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,
which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

George Eliot

#43. You didn't," she said in a resolute voice. "And you won't in the future, because with each purging of your soul, your anger will subside until the only release you'll need will be in my arms.

Monica Burns

#44. Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.

Kristin Armstrong

#45. It's all okay, it's all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

Irvine Welsh

#46. Let go of fighting your habits. Simply be present and observe their patterns. This will help you to break free until the negative patterns eventually subside.

Christopher Dines

#47. Sometimes...fear does not subside and...one must choose to do it afraid.

Elizabeth Elliott

#48. Confess your madness and it will all subside

Cameron Jace

#49. Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.

Kathleen McDonald

#50. The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#51. I can feel the sickening fear inside of me subside as my instincts take over. Inside of me are animal instincts. They were born in a world I wasn't. They take over when I need them to. They've taught me how to survive. I have learned it is the most important part of the world I live in.

Tara Brown

#52. Do you know how,
sometimes, when you first wake up,
your pulse is so thorough, so slow,
that you, and the one who is with you,
and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell
and subside and swell inside your heart?

Jennifer Clarvoe

#53. We forget that every fervor will subside.

Chang-rae Lee

#54. Though the euphoria surrounding Barack Obama's election last week as President-elect has not yet begun to subside, it is already time to recognise that the most important challenge facing the next U.S. president is to restore America's standing in the eyes of the world.

Shashi Tharoor

#55. It was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly

Alice Schroeder

#56. Give the woman what she wants and maybe her rebellion will subside and she will get down to the business of being a human incubator!

Natasha Anders