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By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
— Blaise Pascal
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
— Bill Veeck
What's the difference between Darling Cruel, the wind, and a vacuum? A vacuum only sucks. The wind only blows. But Darling sucks, blows, and swallows.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
— Mary Webb
Think of what this planet has done to us. Dune took my Duke and my son and shattered all our hopes and dreams as a family. It swallows people.
— Brian Herbert
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
— Honore De Balzac
I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.
— Arthur Symons
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler
The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.
— Timothy Keller
Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star. — Alice Notley
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star. — Alice Notley
::Fight, Kayla. You are the sea that swallows her river, the sky that absorbs her smoke. Absorb her flow. Make it yours.:: Kayla
— Rhonda Mason
Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.
— Jindrich Styrsky
Death swallows death.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Men think they like wide-eyed innocence until someone like you swallows their cock down like she can't get enough of it.
— Kit Rocha
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
— St. Jerome
Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
— Ellen Hopkins
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.
— Benjamin Franklin
Time doesn't always heal, it just breathes and swallows memories
— Chris Simpson
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
— Alexander Theroux
He swallows. Snow has the longest neck and the showiest swallow I've ever seen. His chin juts out and his Adam's apple catches - it's a whole scene.
— Rainbow Rowell
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio ...
Changing guard. — D.H. Lawrence
By the Ponte Vecchio ...
Changing guard. — D.H. Lawrence
Love is thick and it swallows me whole.
— Alanis Morissette
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up;
The covers the abyss with a trance
So memory can step around, across, upon it. — Emily Dickinson
The covers the abyss with a trance
So memory can step around, across, upon it. — Emily Dickinson
Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ... And one drinks it.
— Edward VII
Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard.
"I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you."
"I understand. — Neal Shusterman
"I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you."
"I understand. — Neal Shusterman
But you're - your'e not-' Ryan stops, swallows, starts again. 'You're not human,' he says.
— Michelle Knudsen
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
— William Blake
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
— J.M. Barrie
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
— Jane Hirshfield
For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see.
— Haruki Murakami
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
— Alexander Pope
My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
— Sonia Rykiel
And books -- she swallows like dumplings.
— Sholem Aleichem
Swallows and Amazons for-ever!
— Arthur Ransome
Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That's what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.
— C.M. Rayne
The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.
— Ken Follett
The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
— Tom Hollander
But reality, as they say, bites. Chomps, even. Chews, mashes and swallows. And then spits out the bones at the end. The
— Cecily Anne Paterson
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
— Gilbert White
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
— Martial
Your kiss swallows me
And engulfs my very soul — Richard L. Ratliff
And engulfs my very soul — Richard L. Ratliff
Snow White swallows that like a sword. She lets the hammer click back into place. Everything in her that's not nailed down is shaking loose.
— Catherynne M Valente
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
— Charles Lamb
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
— Michael Ondaatje
Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
— Simon Van Booy
And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.
— John Collier
There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
— William Butler Yeats
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
— John Keats
Why did you fucking leave her, Phillipe?" Bringing his eyes back to mine, he swallows and simply replies,"I wanted to see if I could.
— Ella Frank
Then the concerts came to an end, the weather turned bad and my girls left Balbec, not all at once, as the swallows leave, but within the same week.
— Marcel Proust
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts
— Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers
A brick could be slid on a wood floor, like a rolling bowling ball, in an attempt to fill the seconds between swallows of beer.
— Jarod Kintz
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
— Brigitte Bardot
The duck swallows the worm
— Ken Follett
I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.
— Pablo Neruda
When you open the door to hate, you will find/ it swallows you whole/ and there is no/ life left inside.
— Skila Brown
and swallows his cares thoughts drift to women and weekends he too soon won't play
— Kieran Sean Fitzpatrick
That's when he finally turns his head to look at me. As he rubs himself, he swallows, and I see his Adam's apple bob roughly. "I need to know.
— Sarina Bowen
Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.
— Emma Goldman
One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
— Sebastian Faulks
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
— Anais Nin
Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina.
— Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Of course I want you. Have you seen you?"
"I see you."
She swallows, and her eyes bore into mine when she replies. "Yeah, I think you do. — Cora Carmack
"I see you."
She swallows, and her eyes bore into mine when she replies. "Yeah, I think you do. — Cora Carmack
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
— Thomas Southerne
It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.
— Jaron Lanier
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
— William Shakespeare
I'm a man of extraordinary talents, but I need you." He swallows. "Do you hear what I'm saying?
— Krista Ritchie
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
— Jonathan Lethem
Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
— Blaise Pascal
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
— Ernest Hemingway,
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.
— Catherine Fisher
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee