Quotes About Suspension

What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it. I couldn't go on biding time like there was no end of it, no end to this summer.

I allowed myself to give way, to slip down into this mindless state, which was as inchoate as the fog outside, and there to rest, wallow and find, if not peace, at least a certain relief in the suspension of all extremes of emotion.

Es el ruido de las cosas al caer desde la altura, un ruido interrumpido y por lo mismo eterno, un ruido que no termina nunca, que sigue sonando en mi cabeza desde esa tarde y no da señales de querer irse, que está para siempre suspendido en mi memoria, colgado en ella como una toalla de su percha.

Suspended for fighting. It had a ring. Not simply suspended, which could be for any number of inane infractions from skipping algebra to drawing nude cartoons of the principal and his staff on random backgrounds. Suspended ... for FIGHTING! It made you sound like something. Like a real badass dude from way back.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

I thought I was doing very well at Florida. Then I get suspended. Then my head coach tells me to transfer.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.

The essence of good listening is empathy, which can be achieved only by suspending our preoccupation with ourselves and entering into the experience of the other person.

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

stasis field

suspending her body out over the ditch like a piano swinging from a crane.

This is why people will never hear stories about Winston," Harvan complained. "He just held a master shapecrafter in suspension on her home turf, and he made it sound boring.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

you should know about precipitation, a very neglected area of herbal medicine. The constituents that you have extracted from the herbs are held in suspension in a liquid medium. Over time, some of these constituents will precipitate out and settle on the bottom of the tincture bottle.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not question the legitimacy of its claims to represent reality. The concept of "suspension of disbelief', that beloved criterion of positivist criticism supposedly serving to establish the legitimacy of the fantastic, confirms this hegemony.

He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.