Quotes about stay
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Annie Dillard photo

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

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: For the Time Being

Peter Ackroyd photo
Gillian Flynn photo

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

Source: Dark Places

Margaret Atwood photo
Charlaine Harris photo
Jodi Picoult photo
David Foster Wallace photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo
Joss Whedon photo
Thomas Hardy photo
Ray Bradbury photo
Scott Westerfeld photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Robert Jordan photo
Cecelia Ahern photo

“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

Haruki Murakami photo
Richelle Mead photo
David Levithan photo

“The words that matter always stay.”

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Tom Robbins photo

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

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Octavia E. Butler photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Raymond Carver photo
Tim Powers photo
Rachel Caine photo
Suzanne Collins photo

“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”

Source: The Hunger Games

Libba Bray photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Gwendolyn Brooks photo

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

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

"The Chicago Picasso" (1968)

Christopher Moore photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Nassim Nicholas Taleb photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
David Levithan photo

“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

Nikki Sixx photo
Suzanne Collins photo
John Ashbery photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Rachel Caine photo
Suzanne Collins photo

“Stay with me.

Always.”

Source: Mockingjay

Emily Brontë photo
Nathaniel Hawthorne photo

“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)

Harun Yahya photo
Jack Kornfield photo
Steven Wright photo
Ray Bradbury photo
Groucho Marx photo
Frank Miller photo
Ezra Pound photo
Sally Brampton photo
Henry Rollins photo

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

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Chinua Achebe photo
David Levithan photo
Ruskin Bond photo
Andy Warhol photo
Bertolt Brecht photo

“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

“Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”

Source: The Gift

Tim Burton photo
William Faulkner photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Robin McKinley photo
Cassandra Clare photo

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

Source: Clockwork Angel

David Bowie photo
Eoin Colfer photo
Brian Jacques photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Frances Hodgson Burnett photo
Harlan Ellison photo

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

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
Source: Strange Wine

Brandon Sanderson photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
David Sedaris photo
Dorothy Koomson photo
A.A. Milne photo
Henry Ford photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“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?

David Foster Wallace photo

“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.

John Irving photo

“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11

“You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes