Quotes about whole
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“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
Source: UnSouled
“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
April 20, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chapter4.pdf#page=13
“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer
“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
Variant: You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Source: For One More Day
Source: Triggerfish Twist
Translation of Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iii.
“Give me the baby,” Maryse said jealously. “You’ve had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa.”
Source: Born to Endless Night
Source: Magic Burns
“And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“My whole life has been one big broken promise.”
Source: How to Save a Life
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
Source: The Clowns of God (1981), Ch. II (ellipses in original) <!-- p. 35 -->
This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
Context: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
In Defense of Women (1918)
1910s
Variant: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Source: In Defense Of Women
Context: Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
Source: All Fall Down
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
Variant: You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Source: One Day
“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?”
“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
Source: Love Bites
“Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky”
Source: Howl and Other Poems
" Notebook N http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 36 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=25&itemID=CUL-DAR126.-&viewtype=text
quoted in [Darwin's Religious Odyssey, 2002, William E., Phipps, Trinity Press International, 9781563383847, 32, http://books.google.com/books?id=0TA81BTW3dIC&pg=PA32]
also quoted in On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn, page 81
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
Source: Notebooks
“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”
Source: Erak's Ransom
“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
As translated by William Scott Wilson. This first sentence of this passage was used as a military slogan during the early 20th century to encourage soldiers to throw themselves into battle. Variant translations:
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning. Move on with determination. To say dying without attaining ones aim is a foolish sacrifice of life is the flippant attitude of the sophisticates in the Kamigata area. In such a case it is difficult to make the right judgement. No one longs for death. We can speculate on whatever we like. But if we live without having attaining that aim, we are cowards. This is an important point and the correct path of the Samurai. When we calmly think of death morning and evening and are in despair, We are able to gain freedom in the way of the Samurai. Only then can we fulfil our duty without making mistakes in life.
By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
The way of the Samurai is in death.
I have found the essence of Bushido: to die!
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.
Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism
“Love is the whole and more than all.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 1: Puget Sound and British Columbia
1910s
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Source: A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,
As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
General sources