Spite Quotes - Page 17

• Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

  Milan Kundera

  Silence, Comfort, Stories

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Memories, Mistake, Leaving

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books

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• There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Memories, Play, Giving

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• She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

  William Faulkner

  Incapable

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Courage, Children, Dark

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

  Patrick Süskind

  Favors, Malice, Sheer

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• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

  Taylor Swift

  Fearless, Scare, Absence

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• Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Healing, Sleep, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.74, 谷月社

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• It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Sorrow, Misery

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

  Madeline Miller

  Heart, Parent, Want

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• Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Strong, Real, Evil

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

  J.R. Ward

  Regret, Taken, Ambition

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.260, Penguin

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• There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.

  J.R. Ward

  Running, Addiction, Band

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• More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

  Holly Black

  Cutting, Boys, Noses

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Sea

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

  Edmond Rostand

  White, Rose, Crowns

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• Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this.

  Paul Celan

  Loss, Light, Darkness

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• it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear

  Veronica Roth

  Fearless, Acting

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• I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

  Og Mandino

  Flower, Butterfly, Firefly

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.72, Bantam

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• And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

  Colleen McCullough

  Determination, Memories, Healing

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.126, Head of Zeus

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• True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  True Friend, Love You, Imperfection

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2010). “Ten Things I Hate about Me”, p.270, Scholastic Inc.

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• Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

  Robin Parrish

  Mean, Fearless, Absence

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• but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

  Jim Butcher

  War, Technology, Disease

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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