Top 100 Surrounded By Quotes
#1. She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.
Daphne Kalotay
#2. If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.
Cuthbert
#3. All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
Charles Stross
#4. The blind inmates advanced like archangels surrounded by their own splendour.
Jose Saramago
#5. I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
#6. I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.
Cornell Woolrich
#7. After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.
Morgan Rhodes
#8. My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
John Dyer
#9. As I sat in the sanctuary surrounded by thousands of empty seats, here's what became clear to me: it wasn't the size of the crowd Jesus cared about; it was their level of commitment.
Kyle Idleman
#10. Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.
Richelle Mead
#11. At times it felt confusing to be surrounded by people, utterly alone and yet aware that God was my companion.
Martin Pistorius
#12. I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
A.R. Rahman
#13. On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily
Jose Saramago
#14. Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.
Misty Copeland
#15. People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.
Terry Pratchett
#16. I am an ant here surrounded by giants. One wrong step and I will be crushed.
Sam Austin
#17. Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.
Robinson Cano
#19. I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
G. Willow Wilson
#20. It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
Luke Evans
#21. Imogene Duckworthy did not like pigs. She was fairly fond of cattle, having grown up surrounded by them. She hadn't been around pigs much. In fact, this was the first time she'd ever driven toward a pig farm.
Kaye George
#22. The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
Emanuel Ax
#23. I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
Robert Rauschenberg
#24. Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?
Mike Myers
#25. I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls ... She's too precious to give up.
Megan Whalen Turner
#26. I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities.
Ingmar Bergman
#27. If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
Jan Erik Vold
#28. It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
Michael Pollan
#29. For a moment Tess felt her strange, inappropriate happiness teeter. It was as though she were balanced on a narrow crevice surrounded by chasms of grief. One wrong thought and down she'd tumble.
Liane Moriarty
#30. When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers.
Molly Harper
#31. He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself.
Felix J. Palma
#32. He'd always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.
Leah Braemel
#33. I could be surrounded by a hundred people and i'd still be alone. As long as Julia wasn't with me ... i was alone.
Kahlen Aymes
#34. If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
Dalai Lama
#35. He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.
Kim Harrison
#37. When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless ...
Ani DiFranco
#38. I'm safer than I've been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I've never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.
Victoria Aveyard
#39. And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.
Christopher Morley
#40. Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
Ann Radcliffe
#42. Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Evelyn Glennie
#43. I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.
Tanya Masse
#44. I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#45. Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Stendhal
#46. What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
Carolyn Wells
#47. Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.
Leslie Mann
#48. In L.A., my house is surrounded by churches, and there are no cars, so it's really nice to just walk around before I go home to check my emails from Spain, which have been coming in all night.
Jordi Molla
#49. I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
Dakota Johnson
#50. I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
Lauryn Hill
#51. We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul.
Nikki Rowe
#52. I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.
Sarah Silverman
#53. Nobody ever thinks about the flame. It always ends up alone, and surrounded by a bunch of dead moths.
Charity Parkerson
#54. As we sat, huddled together in this rotting, rundown building, I knew I was surrounded by the most intense love I'd ever known.
Rachel Higginson
#55. Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer.
Peter Sloterdijk
#56. I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.
Robert Wilson
#57. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.
Amanda Borden
#58. An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.
Vitruvius
#59. He could be happy, if surrounded by the right people, if allowed to be Will, instead of The Man in the Wheelchair, the list of symptoms, the object of pity. And
Jojo Moyes
#60. When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!
Kenneth Choi
#61. I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.
Jill Soloway
#62. The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
Franz Grillparzer
#63. I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.
Jane Green
#64. What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.
Monica Cruz
#65. We are forever surrounded by ash. But we are fire. And fire rises.
Karina Halle
#66. He was at once severe and beautiful, and the more the played, the more I felt surrounded by that cushion as well, as if I could fall and never hit the ground, as long as he was playing.
Brodi Ashton
#67. When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.
J. Bracken Lee
#68. It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.'
'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.
Wallace Stegner
#69. Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
#70. Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#71. My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
John Lurie
#72. Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.
Stanley Donwood
#73. You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
Adam Driver
#74. When we force something to fit where it doesn't belong, it breaks. When surrounded by people who can't appreciate our beauty, humans essentially do the same.
Kayla Krantz
#75. I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.
silence
and stars
A million suns stretch out beyond me, their light piercing the darkness.
Beth Revis
#76. If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.
Susan Cheever
#77. Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.
Stacey Lee
#78. It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.
Nadya Suleman
#79. I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar ... oh my God, it's me.
Francesca Annis
#80. It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
Jude Watson
#81. I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.
Solange Knowles
#82. Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I'm angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I'm saying. And it's the language in which I most often hear God's voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.
Rachel Held Evans
#83. When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.
Arthur Rubinstein
#84. My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
Anna Wintour
#85. My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
Dylan Lauren
#86. Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens
#87. Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.
Jan Hellriegel
#88. Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#89. I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
Francis Ford Coppola
#90. Walking side by side won't make the journey the same for all, living under the same roof won't make all of them family, and we can be surrounded by millions of people but still be alone."
My No.7th book is coming....!
Tim I. Gurung
#91. The thing I can't, won't, mention to him is that I see Finch everywhere - in the hallways at school, on the street, in my neighborhood. Someone's face will remind me of him, or someone's walk or someone's laugh. It's like being surrounded by a thousand different Finches. I wonder if this is normal,
Jennifer Niven
#92. If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.
Thomas Pogge
#93. A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.
Russell L. Ackoff
#94. The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I'm always surrounded by others, so I won't have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.
Amy Plum
#95. We stood surrounded by orchids that would make Georgia O'Keeffe teary-eyed and most lesbians distracted.
Eva Indigo
#96. It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver
#97. I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman
#98. Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
Natalie Portman
#99. I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
Mac DeMarco
#100. Executing a vision is the scariest thing. But the most scariest thing is being surrounded by wrong people. Build your business fearlessly
Timi Nadela
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