Quotes about burst
A collection of quotes on the topic of burst, likeness, use, time.
Quotes about burst

Variant: Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

“Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.”
Source: The Diary of Anne Frank: And Related Readings

Corot's description of the beginning of a day in Switzerland, Château de Gruyères, 1857; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963
1850s

As quoted in Dreyfus : His Life and Letters (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175.

“I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.”

Variant: Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

The Other World (1657)

after Monet's death
Source: Denis Rouart (1972) Claude Monet, p. 22 : About the first steps in his career

The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

in his letter from Sandviken to Gustave Geffroy, late January 1895; (Geoffrey, 1922, vol 2 pp. 87-88); as cited in: Nathalia Brodskaya, Claude Monet, 2011, p. 106
Similar translation:
One should live here for a year in order to accomplish something of value, and that is only after having seen and gotten to know the country. I painted today, a part of the day, in the snow, which falls endlessly. You would have laughed if you could have seen me completely white, with icicles hanging from my beard like stalactites.
1890 - 1900
Source: Claude Monet, Charles F. Stuckey (1985) Monet: a retrospective, p. 169

From a public letter titled "Winter Practice", published in Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle, 10 July 1858.

No. 180: To a Mr. Thompson (incomplete draft of a letter, 1956).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 292)

Speech in Springfield, Illinois (17 July 1858), referring to Stephen Douglas. Quoted in Charles Sumner (1861), The Promises of the Declaration of Independence
1850s

Quote of Monet, 1864 in a letter to his friend Frédéric Bazille; as cited in Monet's landschappen Vivian Rusell; Icob, Alphen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands 2010, p. 12
1850 - 1870

the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form...
Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

“All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: The wife of my God is matter; they wrestle with each other, they laugh and weep, they cry out in the nuptial bed of flesh.
They spawn and are dismembered. They fill sea, land, and air with species of plants, animals, men, and spirits. This primordial pair embraces, is dismembered, and multiplies in every living creature.
All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing. God is imperiled in the sweet ecstasy and bitterness of flesh.
But he shakes himself free, he leaps out of brains and loins, then clings to new brains and new loins until the struggle for liberation again breaks out from the beginning.
“Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
Source: Fanged & Fabulous

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”

Commentary on the Psalms http://dhspriory.org/thomas/english/PsalmsAquinas/ThoPs0.htm , Introduction
Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them
Source: It Happened One Autumn
Source: A Company of Swans

“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”
Source: First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue

“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: Just One Wish
Source: Conspiracy Game
Source: The Darkest Secret
Source: Magic Bleeds

As quoted in Michel Foucault (1991) by Didier Eribon, as translated by Betsy Wind, Harvard University Press, p. 282
Context: There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.