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“I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have looked like an
earthquake walking down the street.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Music, Way, Passion

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People, Age, Feeling

“You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“It just makes me wonder what subject you blame for talking to me every night.'
I'm still settling on an answer for that one. Probably Chemistry.
Jesus Christ. I can't believe I just wrote that.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Christ, Night

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Imagination, Childhood, Personality

“What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
Context: Men and women will never understand each other; my advice is to just stop trying. Just forget it. I know I will never understand women. I will never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root... and still be afraid of a spider.

Women, Understanding

“Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Tear, Joy

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Change

“When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

World, Kiss, Time, Heart

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)

Health, Beauty, Dreams, Sleep

“But Thierry was shaking his head. "It doesn't matter." His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Marly's Ghost

Life

“The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”

Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist

Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Love, Stupidity, Personality

“A pig painted gold is still a pig.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Matrim Cauthon
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt

Painting

“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Felice

Source: Letters to Felice‎

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Thinking, Light, Heart, Painting

“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

“There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.”

André Breton book Manifestoes of Surrealism

Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Thinking, Madness

“She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Love, Happiness, Feeling, Time

“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree
From which a small wood-owl calls.”

Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965) German author

Tree, Winter, Animals

“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

Rita Mae Brown book Rubyfruit Jungle

Source: Rubyfruit Jungle

People, Way, Feeling

“still waters run deep. ~Tabitha”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Water

“Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be… enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Love

“He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Thinking, Past

“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”

Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

Love

“We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Love

“Im still betting on you. - Cinna.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

“Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Feeling, Girl, Star

“Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Exercises, Revenge

“My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Thinking

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Education, Parent, Learning, Time

“I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

Nature

“But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

Life, People

“But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking toward
the sky, knowing
there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe,
by the way, that
miracles can happen.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Smile, Way

“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Way, Appearance

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Art, Music, Travel, Kiss

“Yes… it wasn't over, it still isn't over.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Love, Passion, Sun, Heart

“It's nice sometimes
to open up the heart a little
and let some hurt come in.
It proves you're still alive.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

Source: Listen to the Warm

Heart, Hurt

“And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Cab Driver, p. 146
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Country

“I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Life, Sleep

“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Love, Lie, Dreams, Time

“… Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become….”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Well of Ascension

People

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Problem

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Soul, Hurt

“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali book Infidel

Source: Infidel

Women, Peace, Thinking, Reality

“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.

I do have a knack for finding great women.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Women, Happiness, Way

“Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)
Source: Miles in Love

“There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Parting

“Jesse: " Hey Rose, welcome back. Still breaking hearts?"
Rose: " Are you volunteering?”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Heart

“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Life, Funny

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”

Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary

Secret, Heart

“One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained.

It simply was.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Love

“Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

Knowledge

“If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

Question

“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

“Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly."

"That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

"Guys do ridiculous things for love.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Way, Guy, Parting

“I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Hate, Search, Suffering

“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”

Tove Jansson book The Summer Book

Source: The Summer Book

Star, Summer

“Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again.
Yep, still there. Amazing.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“I need wings," said Total, still sniffling. "I need mywings. Then things like that wouldn't happen."
Yeah, that was all I needed. Atalking mutant dog.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Dogs

“I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am blue. And I am orange.”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

Jackie Kay (1961) Poet and novelist

Source: Trumpet

Love, Life, Problem, Parting

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: The Complete Essays
Context: No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

World