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Quotes About Scattered

Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
~ John Berger
En qué desorden vivíamos, cuántos fragmentos de nosotros mismos salían volando como si vivir fuese estallar en esquirlas.
~ Elena Ferrante
In quale disordine vivevamo, quanti frammenti di noi stessi schizzavano via come se vivere fosse esplodere in schegge.
~ Elena Ferrante
In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.
~ Elena Ferrante
The early universe was a dusty place, and the UV radiation from the hot, young black holes and stars would get enshrouded by dust, re-radiated, and scattered into red wavelengths like infra-red, causing these objects to remain obscured.
~ Priyamvada Natarajan
One thing I could tell you is that I'm all over the place.
~ Lil Uzi Vert
To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is not that abstract of a thing when I think about how my brain works - I feel like it's almost more realistic. That's how my brain works.
~ Aesop Rock
Forbidden things are open to the imagination. That was why Eve ate the Apple of Knowledge, said Aunt Vidala: too much imagination. So it was better not to know some things. Otherwise your petals would get scattered.
~ Margaret Atwood
homelessness is a nationality now. Somehow the war never ended after all, it just broke up into pieces and got scattered, it gets in everywhere, you can't shut it out. Killing is endless now, it's an industry, there's money in it, and the good side and the bad side are pretty hard to tell apart.
~ Margaret Atwood
barn kittens scattered before his boots like dandelion fluff.
~ Anna Quindlen
Scattered in the dark were the vampires.
~ Anne Rice
If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose.
~ Annie Dillard
Lucille certainly picked a fine time to leave us, didn't he? I just wish our only problem was four hungry children and a crop in the field. (Danger) You know, your sarcasm isn't helping anymore than your bizarre and scattered references to literature and bad country songs. (Alexion) Not true, it's helping me maintain a calm facade that I most definitely do not feel. (Danger) Well, it's starting to piss me off. (Alexion) Ooo, you almost scare me when you say that.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The key points in my life as a kid were so scattered that I was most comfortable in, like, airports.
~ Uffie
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.
~ Elizabeth Strout
El sufrimiento era atroz con sólo imaginar dispersa mi biblioteca.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.
~ B. K. S. Iyengar
My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
~ Kelis
I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.
~ Courteney Cox
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
~ Sue Townsend
What kind of books do you want?' the librarian enquired. 'Local history,' I said. She shook her head and muttered darkly, 'They'll be scattered.' I wasn't sure what that meant. It's the sort of thing people say at crematoriums, not libraries. She kept staring at me, so I left without any books.
~ Sandi Toksvig
And Merritt, I saw now, had figured out the ultimate puzzle—how to live forever. How to leave enough of yourself behind, even if it was scattered in little pieces, that your presence on the earth was no longer temporary, but permanent.
~ Sara Gran
A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream... i want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.
~ Shiro Amano