Quotes about stay
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“if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: For the Time Being

“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.”

Peter Ackroyd (1949) English author

Source: First Light

Love, Books, Reading, Parting

“I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Dogs

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

Way

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

Guy

“In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Reality, Learning, Change

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

David Foster Wallace book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Bee, Time

“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Change

“How did you find me here?
If I was blind, I would see you.
Stay with me.
Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

Secret, Learning, Past, Country

“The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us—boys of a sort unknown in the last generation—the outcome of new views of life. They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them. He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live.”

Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

Life, Spring, Boy, Universe

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Good Morning, Love

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”

Scott Westerfeld book Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

People, World

“Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Time

“Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?”

Richard Yates (1926–1992) Novelist, short story writer

God, Change

“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”

John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher

God

“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Heart

“I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Moms, Past, Parting

“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

Hope, Change, Time, Past

“The words that matter always stay.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”

Octavia E. Butler book Kindred

Source: Kindred

Pain, People, Sleep, Chance

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Idea, Happiness

“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Distance and other stories

Life, Tear

“Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.”

Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Source: On Stranger Tides

World, Drink

“No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.'
'You really want to go first?'
'Of course no. But I'd like the chance toto go first.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Men, Chance

“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Marriage, Change

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Love, People, Family, Study

“In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Harlequin

Source: The Harlequin

“And I found that I can do it if I choose to - I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together different from before but whole once again.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Source: The Invitation

World, Tear, Joy

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

"The Chicago Picasso" (1968)

Art, Home, Hurt

“It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Guy

“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Dead

“Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Night

“Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?”

James Clavell book Shōgun

Source: Shōgun

Life, God, Laughter, Suffering

“It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Love, Feeling, Passion

“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I’m so sleepy.”
“My beautiful girl, dawn nears. And all good vampires are to bed.”
She eased up, arching a brow at him. “Then you’ll stay awake.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Beauty, Girl

“Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Women

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People, Help, Heart

“Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Sweep: Volume 1

“Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.”

Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician

Beauty

“Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Idea, Forgiveness

“Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

Life

“How many people came and stayed a certain time,
Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you
Like light behind windblown fog and sand
Filtered and influenced by it, until no part
Remains that is surely you.”

John Ashbery (1927–2017) poet from the United States

People, Light, Time, Parting

“Hey,” Shayne said through the door. “You going to stay in there all night, because we’re getting tired of trying to eavesdrop from out here. Can’t hear a damn thing.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Smart and Sexy

Night

“That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Feeling, Sense

“He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

Kiss, Madness

“Stay with me.

Always.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Life, Dreams, Idea, Water

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

1842
Source: Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)

Beauty, Autumn, Housing

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author

Question, Bird, Flying

“Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us… Nothing just stops and stays… But it flows on… Like a river…”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

People

“As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

“Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Heartbreaking, People, Siblings

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

People, Housing, Night

“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad."
"No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Sadness

“Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay,
I came to say, I must be going.
I’m glad I came, but just the same,
I must be going.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill

Source: The Big Fat Kill

People, Time

“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

Light

“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.”

Sally Brampton (1955–2016) British writer

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

People, Effort, Dead

“I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Love

“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb"He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

“We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Time

“If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

“Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.”

Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer

Source: A Little Book of Life

Way

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Disease, Dogs, Home, Night

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.
As quoted in Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976) by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, p. 224, also in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 390

Way

“Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”

Danielle Steel book The Gift

Source: The Gift

“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Feeling, Success, Loneliness, Happiness

“Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.”

Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer

Source: Tap & Gown

Way, Change, Past, Heart

“A dream is not a very safe thing to be near… I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Dreams, Hurt

“Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Dead

“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

Source: Pegasus

“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.”

Scott Alexander (1963) American writer, director and producer

Evil, Cheating

“Unless there was a reason for me to stay.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Cause I'd rather stay here
With all the madmen
Than perish with the sadmen roaming free
And I'd rather play here
With all the madmen
For I'm quite content they're all as sane
As me”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

“If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage.”

“Will he make me bathe?”

“No, he will debate the matter with you until you decide to wash.”

“Ah. One of those.”

Eoin Colfer book Airman

Source: Airman

“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”

Brian Jacques book Martin the Warrior

Source: Martin the Warrior

Life, Memory, Heart, Happiness

“You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.”

Barry Hannah (1942–2010) Short story writer, novelist, professor

Lie

“Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author

Sadness

“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”

Harlan Ellison book Strange Wine

Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 182 https://books.google.com/books/about/Voices_of_Vision.html?id=Nu4vUZT-7ToC&hl=en <br class="br">Source: Strange Wine

“AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her.
Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Fish, Dead

“In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)

Children, People, Parting, Country

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

Source: Goodnight, Beautiful

Pain, Feeling, Soul, Time

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

For Friend, Waiting

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Wise, Graduation, Learning

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Bluebird
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Context: there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
... I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
... he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
... and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

Heart

“In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Up, Simba
Essays
Variant: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Context: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Home, Reality

“Stay with me.”
“We’re married,” she whispered. “Of course I’ll stay.”
“You could decide to leave me.”
“I won’t.” “Promise me.”
“I have promised. I do promise.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie