Quotes about still
page 16

“Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

World, Star, Thinking, Waiting

“Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.”

Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind

Source: A Voice in the Wind

“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

Lying, Housing

“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next… It is still unwritten.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”

John Grisham book The Street Lawyer

Source: The Street Lawyer

Thinking, Past, Future

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”

Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) Entrepreneur

People, Music

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Feeling

“You are avake, yah?" said a voice in a horribly recognizable accent.
"Yah," I muttered, rubbing my head. "And you are still a jerk, yah?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Jerk

“The first rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Nothing mattered.

Grief of grief has drained me clean;
Still it seems a pity
No one saw,—it must have been
Very pretty.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

Sadness, Tree

“… the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Life

“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Understanding, Thinking, Fight

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Your best days are still out in front of you”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“There's no such thing as winning or losing. There isand there is; there isand. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still leftt to fight for.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Fight

“No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.”

Harlan Coben book Six Years

Source: Six Years

Feeling, Thinking, Sleep, Cry

“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Love

“But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.”

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

Life, Books, Hope

“There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.”

Mary Pope Osborne (1949) American children's writer

Source: Earthquake in the Early Morning

Hope, Water

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Drink, Fish, Water

“Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Cats

“I knew I had to be careful. I had to keep my distance. If she knew how much I still cared, it was all over. I wouldn’t be able to walk away again. The first time was hard enough.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Time

“Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret

“If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

ET Magazine (2004) [citation needed] This needs further date citation, as the article designated has not yet been located.

God

“You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

“Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced… that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“I still doubt it will work."
"You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden
said with a smile.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Smile, Sun

“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”

Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist

Age, Way

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Truth, World, Feeling

“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”

Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Change, Perfection

“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Dance

“Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Dead

“You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.”

Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

Source: The Jane Austen Book Club

Happiness, Books, Reading

“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist

As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan L. MacKay, p. 140
Attributed

Funny

“Just like moons and suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Spring, Sun

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

Truth, Silence

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Love, Hurt

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Life, Time

“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

People, Freedom, Memory

“You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Happiness, Personality

“The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Feeling, Tree, Grass, Cry

“It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Runaway Queen

“You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Life, World, Feeling, Imagination

“Cassie looked up at him, her fingers still intermeshed with his. "Sorry," she said unsteadily. "I was just scared."
"Remind me to get you scared frequently," Nick said. He looked slightly dazed.”

L.J. Smith book The Secret Circle: The Power

Source: The Power

“Some people still think knowledge is power.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

People, Knowledge, Thinking

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Boy

“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart, Parting

“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“As I recall, I was still dressed when I fell asleep."

"Just making sure you were comfortable."

"And making yourself equally comfortable, I see.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.”

Diane Chamberlain (1950) American writer

Source: The Silent Sister

People

“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.”

Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist

Books, Time

“How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Heart

“But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Time

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Men, Pain, Feeling, Parting

“Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Color, Way, Water, Memory

“When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Love, Change, Gratitude

“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Hell

“… for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Life

“We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.”

Pete Hautman (1952) American children's writer

Source: The Big Crunch

Dreams

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Happiness, Sadness, Time

“We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say…”
Leo shrugged. “How do you feel about?”
Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. “Sounds about typical for us.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Feeling, Time

“It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Way

“We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Source: The Complete Persepolis

Way, Feeling, Support

“Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be.
“Why?” he said to his lover.
“Because I want you for however long I have you.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Love, Lovers

“Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has… a soul.'… 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Soul, Dance

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Way, Hell, Suffering, Flying

“No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

People

“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”

Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American composer

Sun, Night

“Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine,
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

Drink, Wine

“Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Lie, Thinking

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Love, Hate

“Hey Rose, welcome back. You still breaking hearts?"
"Are you volunteering?"
His grin widened." Let's hang out sometime and find out. If you ever get parole.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Heart

“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

World

“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.”

Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Beauty, Way, Nature, Tree

“As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.”

William Peter Blatty book The Exorcist

Source: The Exorcist

God

“Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.”

Salman Rushdie book The Moor's Last Sigh

Source: The Moor's Last Sigh

Love, Life, Hope

“These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hope, Parting

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

War, Home

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: The Hob's Bargain

People

“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”

Walker Percy book The Second Coming

Source: The Second Coming (1980)

Life

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Women, World, Understanding, Bird

“The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Beauty, Dead

“I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

People, Success

“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”

Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer

Source: Bluets

Sadness, Beauty

“The eye—it cannot choose but see;
we cannot bid the ear be still;
our bodies feel, where'er they be,
against or with our will.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Expostulation and Reply, st. 5 (1798).
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Feeling

“I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.”

Natsuo Kirino book Real World

Source: Real World

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Source: Factotum

Life, World, Sleep, Clothes

“And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you’re still there after all these years. If you’re having fun, I am, too.”

Stephen King book Finders Keepers

Source: Finders Keepers

God