Quotes about till
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“How do you console my mom or give her light support
Tellin' her her son's on life support?
And just imagine how my girl feel,
On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Through the Wire
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

Life, Guy, Feeling, Imagination

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Books, Soul

“We're still on the run. That's for sure.
Right on. This time we're on.
And we won't stop till we win.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

Time

“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

Source: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

“We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 10, Tames Goats.

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”

Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist

Books, Reading

“A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Sun

“i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body”

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

Flowers, Sleep, Sun

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

Disappointment

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Arise, awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom
Source: Meditation and Its Methods According to Swami Vivekananda

Positive

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

Cormac McCarthy book Outer Dark

Source: Outer Dark (1968)

God, Sun

“I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books, Feeling, Waiting, Reading

“I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Love, Star, Lovers, Parting

“Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Immortal Beloved

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Variant: I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
Source: On the Road

Star, Night

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Old Town Folks

Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 39 (p. 507) Sometimes paraphrased: "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." and "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn".
Context: When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, — and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

Time

“Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes…”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Mr. Lockwood (Ch. III).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: As it spoke I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed-clothes: still it wailed, "Let me in!", and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

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

War, Smile, Way, Game

“then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Love, World, Thinking, Sad

“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers

Change

“I’ll do this to you till there’s something to take the place of your vows—until you see the two of us together as your religion.” (Garreth)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Religion

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Lovers, Cry

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but though his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance

Education, Suicide, Universe, Time

“There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I conquered in myself what
causes war”

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

In Distrust of Merits
Poetry

War, Fight

“Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

The Anniversary, last stanza
Source: The Complete English Poems

Love

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was impossible now, at least till night-time; it was impossible to return to that music sung by carafe-women; and so one had to become oblivious in the dreams of life.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Pt. 1, ch. 2
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Life, Women, Dreams, Music

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

People, Lie, Way, Change

“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Frosting

Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Panther and the Lash

Freedom, Learning

“And it seemed to me that there were fires
Flying till dawn without number
And I never found out things-those
Strange eyes of his-what colour?

Everything trembling and singing and
Were you my enemy or my friend,
Winter was it or summer?”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Winter, Singing, Summer, Flying

“His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Age, World, Question

“Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till he won.”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

Source: Deadly Little Voices

“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.

The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Fear

“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Book of Blues

Angels, Girl, Sun

“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

“… most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Soul, Time

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

A saying in Maule, Tear
The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)

“I remember discussions withwhich went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question:?”

Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist

Question, Despair, Night

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Love, Soul, Singing

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: The Invention of Wings

Truth

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Music, Time

“Love can touch us one time
And last for a life time
And never let go till
We're gone.”

Céline Dion (1968) Canadian singer

Love, Life, Time

“Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon,
With the harmonious thunder of the sun”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Death, Soul, Sun

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Change

“a man would know the women he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Deceive

Women, Strong

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Love, Kiss

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

page 439 Last line of the documentary film " John Muir in the New World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/" (American Masters), produced, directed, and written by Catherine Tatge. John of the Mountains, 1938 Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Happiness

“There will be killing till the score is paid.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Jonathan Harker
Source: Dracula (1897)

Suffering, Heart, Night

“Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

Past, Hurt

“I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Guy, Soul, Time

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Evil

“Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Waiting

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1785)

Truth, Lie, World, Time

“Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you”

Katie Fforde (1952) British novelist (1952-)

Second Thyme Around

“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Personality

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.”

George Gordon Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Pleasure, Youth, Sleep, Joy

“The little pig began to pray
But Wolfie blew his house away.
He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham!
Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"
And though he ate the pig quite fast,
He carefully kept the tail till last.”

Roald Dahl book Revolting Rhymes

Source: Revolting Rhymes

Wolf, Housing

“Till I loved I never liked enough.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Variant: Till I loved I never lived.

Love

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

James Hilton Random Harvest

Source: Random Harvest

Idea

“Call no day fortunate till it be ended.”
Nulla dies felix

Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) English writer and publisher

The Fifth Queen Crowned

“Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!”

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

“en garde, Julian. It's not over till it's over.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking

“I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Memory

“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Death, World, Tree, Singing

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Peace, Soul, Heart

“The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

Life

“Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

World

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians… And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Change

“I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home."
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Home, Dance

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

Source: The Secret Sharer and other stories

Thinking

“I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

“Hey, Hot Stuff, Can’t wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it’s soon. You’re way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I’m out here waiting. Your Future”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Hope, Jerk, Way, Guy

“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: Selected Poems

“Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

St. 24. Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

Heart

“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Heart, Hurt

“How to run an ultramarathon? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.”

Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Complete Poems

“A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Waiting

“I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

God, Religion

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love, World

“Season of Joy:
She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Thinking, Tree, Joy, Season

“One must wait till it comes.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

Waiting

“And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.”

Clive Barker book Cabal

Source: Cabal

Sun

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Light

“Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

Sleep, Cry

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House

O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Source: Heartbreak House

World

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address http://books.google.com/books?id=xN45ZsUMgKEC&q=%22No+race+can+prosper+till+it+learns+that+there+is+as+much+dignity+in+tilling+a+field+as+in+writing+a+poem+It+is+at+the+bottom+of+life+we+must+begin+and+not+at+the+top%22&pg=PA220#v=onepage 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901) Context: No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.

Learning

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Understanding