Quotes About Pause

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

Cease, cows, life is short.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

So when emotions come up, mind the gap. First feel them, then hold still without reacting, and then look—look at the gap.

Yes?" asked Margaret, for there was a long pause—a pause that was somehow akin to the flicker of the fire, the quiver of the reading-lamp upon their hands, the white blur from the window; a pause of shifting and eternal shadows.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Are you hungry?" "A little," I paused, "and thirsty." "Miss Collins will get you some dinner. And a glass of milk." "Milk?" I said. I tried to raise my eyebrows but even that hurt. "Milk," the doctor repeated.

The pause that refreshes.

Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

I thought they might take a break," he says. Marie-Laure is thinking of her father. "Maybe," she says, "it is even more important now?

This is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.

And to Marie Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

And it occurs to me that some way back I began a sentence that I never finished...

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.

Let me digress a moment to talk about beginnings. How much simpler life would be if we were wise enough to stop at the first blush of romance, the start of a business transaction or a casual friendship. If we knew enough to pause and think: this is as good as it gets. Everything will go downhill from this moment on. So once again our instincts are the opposite of what they should be, propelling us forward exactly when they should be holding us back.

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.