Dissolving Quotes - Page 2

• You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Moments, Forgetful, Sensations

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Sweat, Water

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• And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

  Gunter Grass

  Nice, Yield, Color

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• William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

  Adrian Desmond

  Flower, Ignorance, Science

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• Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, Soul, Technique

  "The Flamethrowers". Book by Rachel Kushner, April 2, 2013.

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• I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Self, Intuition

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• Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Ironic, Narrative

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• Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Ego, Doe, Might

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• You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

  Joseph Joubert

  Rolling Along, Pebbles, Grain

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• The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

  Susie Orbach

  Way, Kind, Analysts

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  Ray Stevens

  Reality, Purple, Drug

  Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set

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• Letting the last breath come.
  Letting the last breath go.
  Dissolving, dissolving into vast space,
  the light body released from its heavier form.
  A sense of connectedness with all that is,
  all sense of separation dissolved
  in the vastness of being.
  Each breath melting into space
  as though it were the last.

  Stephen Levine

  Rest In Peace, Light, Space

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor

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• The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Nature, Clouds, Together

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• Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Wall, Rain

  Margaret Atwood (1973). “Power politics”, Harper & Row, 1973

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• Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

  Lauren Oliver

  World, Danger, Brushes

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• Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

  Michael Dolan

  Worry, Anxiety, Conscious

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• And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

  Dylan Thomas

  Aunt, Shining, Missing

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• Sorghum started to answer, but Wheat flew at him and knocked him down. The karpoi began to fight, dissolving into funnel clouds of grain. Hazel considered making a run for it. Then Wheat re-formed, holding Sorghum in a headlock. "Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Mulitgrain fighting is not allowed!

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Fighting, Clouds

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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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• When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

  Tennessee Williams

  School, Eye, Class

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

  Wallace Stegner

  Notebook, Morning, Lying

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.191, Modern Library

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• When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist

  Stephen King

  Technology, Night, Ozone

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• Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Way, Reactions

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

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