Quotes about still
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“You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Books

“I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Sadness, Thinking, Cry

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Feeling

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Life, Personality

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love, Way

“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

Love

“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Understanding

“I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.”

Sarah Vowell (1969) American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator

Coffee, Drink

“I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

Life, Despair

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

Life

“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Love, Beauty, Heart

“You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Books, Stupidity, Drawing

“What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.”

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

Source: Nightlife

Dance

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”

Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

Alcohol, Drink

“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Dreams, Boy, Sleep

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Someone Like You (1998)

Books, Color, Waiting, Help

“We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.”

Tori Amos book Piece by Piece

Source: Piece by Piece

Love, Singing

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Death, Fear

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

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: For the Time Being

“A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume…”

Amy Lowell (1874–1925) US writer

Cats, Night

“At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Way, Night

“Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.

“I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die,” Seregil gasped.

“Twice is my limit,” croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.”

Lynn Flewelling Luck in the Shadows

Source: Luck in the Shadows

Time

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Love, People, Sadness, Bee

“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"America's Medieval Women," Harper's Magazine (August 1938)

Education, Intelligence

“And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Soul

“Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Evil

“What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu book In a Glass Darkly

Source: In a Glass Darkly

Fools, Angels, Change

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books, Reading

“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Heart

“As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Heart

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

Dean Koontz book Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

Love

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Happiness, People, Effort

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

People, World

“If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

Thinking

“There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Heart, Depressing

“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: The Crisis

Fate, Soul

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Girl, Lovers

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

Sleep, Perfection

“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

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life, Tear, Cry

“Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Age

“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”

Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic

Source: Speedboat

Thinking

“I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Reading, Heart

“It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.”

Georgette Heyer book April Lady

Source: April Lady

“I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

World, Thinking

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet

"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)

Life, Star

“You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
— Tiny Cooper”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Love, Beauty, Sleep

“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Source: Johnny Cash Quotes

Feeling, Time

“I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Color, Sport

“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Life, Literature

“How do you feel right now?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel worse tomorrow."
"So?"
"So, better get a jump on this while you still feel… not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retorted.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Feeling, Hell, Hurt

“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”

Dodie Smith (1896–1990) English novelist and playwright

Source: The Town in Bloom

Age, World, Feeling

“Are you still mad because i broke your phone" Jace said. "Because you broke my wrist, so i'd said we're even"
"It was sprained," Alec said. "Not broken, sprained”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Madness

“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.”

Loung Ung (1970) American academic

Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

World, Beauty, Feeling, Thinking

“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Wolves of the Calla

“Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Loyalty

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Death, World, Art

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Universe, Wedding

“There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.”

Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker

Source: The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances

People

“I’ll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Death, Revenge

“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: A Confession

Life, Fear, Hope

“I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else… no contest.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

Love, Life, Fear, Anger

“I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

People, Guy, Girl, Business

“From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Since the first time i saw you, I've belonged to you completely.
Source: City of Glass

Time

“He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Learning, Time

“There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”

George Jones (1931–2013) American musician, singer and songwriter

Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 148.

Question

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Love, Thinking, Flying

“I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Love, Girl

“Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you."

I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

Home, Tree

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Love, Smile, Feeling, Fight

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fear, Bird, Freedom, Distant

“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Chance, Dance

“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

Feeling

“We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Love, Hope, Time, Parting

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

People

“guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

Love, Sense

“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.”

Ayn Rand book We the Living

Source: We the Living

“Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Love, People

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life, Cry

“Quiet Prayer:
As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Children, Age, Lovers, Time

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

Candace Bushnell Lipstick Jungle

Source: Lipstick Jungle

“All the best,
Sydney

P. S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car.
P. P. S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Cars, Thinking, Evil, Night

“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”

Helen Oyeyemi (1984) British author

Source: Mr. Fox

Heart

“I will never give up… I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world… As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

World

“Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

Life, Singing

“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

Art, Laughter, Suffering, Despair

“Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.”

Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect

Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Life, World, Thinking

“Am I still married to a cat? (Adrian)”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

Cats

“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Star, Box

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Variant: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Source: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3

Books, Reading

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman

Statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts‎ (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172, Third statement for June 11. This has often been misattributed to Helen Keller in some published works since at least 1980, perhaps because she somewhere quoted it.
Variant:
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎ (1909) by Edwin Osgood Grover, p. 28; also in Masterpieces of Religious Verse (1948) by James Dalton Morrison, p. 416, where it is titled "Lend a Hand"
Variant: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

“nothing she did
or said

was quite
what she meant

but still her life
could be called a monument

shaped in a slant
of available light

and set to the movement
of possible music”

Carol Shields (1935–2003) American author

Life, Music, Light

“I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

World, Sadness, Thinking