Swallowing Quotes - Page 4

• The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

  Norman O. Brown

  Reality, Self, Ego

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Eye, Long

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• So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mouths, Earth, Soup

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• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Time, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin

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• Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Suicide, Depressing

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• You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Eye, Effort

  Richelle Mead (2015). “Succubus Heat”, p.185, Zebra

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• No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

  Marian Keyes

  Thanks, Humiliation, Honestly

  Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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• Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Ideas, Profound

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• I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

  Arthur Golden

  Thinking, Mind, Littles

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• The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Men, Enemy

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• Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Opposites, Church

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• The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Death, Freedom, Cutting

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.360, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

  Dean Koontz

  Risk, Tears, Becoming

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.425, Bantam

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• I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.

  David Cross

  Funny, Hurt, Humor

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• Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Angry Words, Angry

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• The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

  Cleveland Amory

  Mules, Parks, Faces

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• There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.

  Thomas Perry

  Couple, Vacation, Shoes

  Thomas Perry (1989). “Island”, Avon Books

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• That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Struggle, Thinking

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Language, Force

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• The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

  Paul Auster

  Moon, People, Pieces

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.38, Penguin

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• The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mind, Action, Nonsense

  "Revolt in 2100" by Robert A. Heinlein, "Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript", 1953.

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• My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

  Anna Banks

  Dad, Poison, Grudge

  Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

  Ann Voskamp

  Complacency, Bears, Conviction

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• Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

  John Medina

  Children, Joy, Transition

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five”, p.9, Pear Press

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