Trances Quotes

#1. Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

Herman Melville

#2. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

Karen Russell

#3. Wafted by a favouring gale
As one sometimes is in trances,
To a height that few can scale,
Save by long and weary dances

W.S. Gilbert

#4. How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within my body in the form of a person, he will be saint to me.

Jibankrishna

#5. I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year

E. Nesbit

#6. At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

James Mooney

#7. They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions; and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.

Washington Irving

#8. Homosexuality and trance were considered abnormalities now, while in the Middle Ages people had been made saints for their trances, which were considered the highest state of being, and in Ancient Greece, as Plato makes clear, homosexuality was 'a major means to the good life.

Lily King

#9. Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. Return trips, to this day ... are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,

John Irving

#11. And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

Ray Farabee

#13. I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

Kaley Cuoco

#15. Dad: Did you like the Kinder Egg I gave you yesterday? Son: The chocolate was very good, but the shell was a bit hard. ***

Various

#16. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

#17. Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

Jacqueline Rayner

#18. If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

Ralph Marston

#19. History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

David Souter

#20. And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].

Quran 14 42

#21. The thought of you makes my heart melt.

Truth Devour

#22. The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Napoleon Bonaparte