Clinging Quotes - Page 7

WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

Walt Whitman

Beach, Drinking, Sleep

Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.94, University of Iowa Press

12 Copy quote

Show source
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

Chogyam Trungpa

Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

101 Copy quote
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Moore

Successful, Viruses, Mud

"Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

15 Copy quote

Show source
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

Kurt Vonnegut

Wall, Glasses, Air

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

4 Copy quote

Show source
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Feelings, Excess, Strange

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

8 Copy quote

Show source
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.

James Salter

Book, Landscape, Letters

13 Copy quote
If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

Richelle Mead

Tacos, Has Beens, Ifs

Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.109, Kensington Publishing Corp.

11 Copy quote

Show source
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

Mira Grant

Queens, Sleep, Silence

4 Copy quote
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.

Henry Rollins

Hate, Eye, Love Is

4 Copy quote
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.

Theodore Roethke

Mother, Boys, Hands

Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.83, Anchor

4 Copy quote

Show source
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

Henri Nouwen

Spiritual, Loneliness, Garden

12 Copy quote
...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

William Faulkner

Thinking, Two, People

William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

12 Copy quote

Show source
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Dorothy Parker

Brave, Sake, Taste

5 Copy quote
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

T. D. Jakes

Forgiveness, God, Nursing

T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

230 Copy quote

Show source
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

Richard Paul Evans

Hurt, Journey, Soul

Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Road to Grace”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

10 Copy quote

Show source
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

Tony Kornheiser

Football, Men, Levels

52 Copy quote
Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

Rajneesh

Frustration, Law, Stupidity

4 Copy quote
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

Rajneesh

Attachment, Independence, Individuality

7 Copy quote
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles, you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost in unnecessary things.

Rajneesh

Stupid, Real, Circles

4 Copy quote
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

Meher Baba

Giving Up, Diversity, Fundamentals

"The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

38 Copy quote

Show source
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

Chogyam Trungpa

Letting Go, Mean, Power

26 Copy quote
Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left?
There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there.
No separation anywhere.
Pure awareness.
Neither this, nor that.
Just clarity and being.
This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Ram Dass

Letting Go, Mean, Meditation

47 Copy quote
The appearances of the world are not the problem,
it's clinging to them that causes suffering

Tilopa

Meditation, Suffering, World

108 Copy quote
Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

Carlos Castaneda

Attitude, Warrior, Men

Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

71 Copy quote

Show source
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Gautama Buddha

Buddhist, Growing Up, Rain

10 Copy quote