Dazed Quotes

• The older you get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’ man, l-i-v-i-n’

  Matthew McConaughey

  Confused, Men, Trying

  "The McConaissance" by Rachel Syme, www.newyorker.com. January 16, 2014.

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• My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Littles, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.95, Diversion Books

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• That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Girl, Confused, School

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• I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

  Richard Linklater

  Confused, Thinking, Quitting

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• A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

  Nigel Short

  Confused, Sacrifice, Sound

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• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  Edward Furlong

  Confused, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a need of silence and of stars.
  Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
  The silken sound of whirled infinity
  Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

  William Alexander Percy

  Stars, Voice, Silence

  William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”

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• As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Silver, Surface

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• I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

  Laurie R. King

  Book, Long, Library

  "The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (A Mary Russell Mystery)". Book by Laurie R. King, 1994.

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• Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Blood, Vampire

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Cat, Moon

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorance, Poetic, Dramatic

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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• Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Communication, Home

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• We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Confused, Smart, Our World

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Faith, People, Balance

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.

  William Carlos Williams

  Spring, Naked, World

  1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

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• People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Men, People, Rifles

  Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5”, p.9, Macmillan

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• You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Needs, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Fashion, Husband

  "The Women", Aphorism 79,

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• He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like that square-jaw, bright-blue-eyes, devilish-dimples kind of thing. Although he was in desperate need of a haircut and a good shave.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Eye, Squares

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Smart, Character

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• It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Pain, Love You

  Peter and Wendy ch. 8 (1911)

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• The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Healing, Winter

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