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Quotes About Plunge

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
~ Marguerite Duras
I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The surprise is how good the wind feels on my face as I fall. And the other surprise is that I ever rise at all
~ Annie Dillard
He remembered hearing of the superstition that told them they would come to a sharp brink, and sail over it, to fall forever from the world in space and darkness. The legends had not kept them back, he knew; but he wondered how often, in their lonely sailing, they had intimations of depthless plunge, and how often they were repeated in their dreams.
~ John Williams
I entered into this darkness where, ever since, I plunge deeper every hour and lose myself a little more.
~ Georges Bataille
In the evening of his life, January was suddenly plunged into an early night. He went stone blind.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.
~ Scott Lynch
Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.
~ Ben Clymer
Yellowfang dropped
~ Erin Hunter
I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.
~ Rakhi Sawant
Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I was studying Psychology when 'Uppena' came my way. I decided to take the plunge because I totally loved the story.
~ Krithi Shetty
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
~ Franz Kafka
Beyond a given point man is not helped by more "knowing," but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put it, we must plunge into experience and then reflect on the meaning of it. All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.
~ Ernest Becker
and I attempted, above all, to get at the truth, not the masquerade that declares itself as genuineness when, habitually, the truth is invoked, but a wholesale leveling of the artifices of personality, a selfless plunge into...into what I had thought must remain forever hidden, to the substance of what I had always kept in shadow ... to that point where self becomes sorrow ...
~ Evan Dara
That was when I waked half of Arkham with my screaming as I plunged madly up from the abyss of sleep.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge . . . Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the key to our dilemmas? We do have authoritative source material. It is found in the ancient and historic Book we call the Bible.
~ Billy Graham
I went down like a tray of dishes
~ Blake Bailey
Nawet nie domy?la?am si?, jak g??boka jest przepa??, w któr? spadamy, dopóki nie zobaczy?am takiego dna.
~ Boles?aw Prus
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.
~ Michael Cunningham
turning a switch to plunge the access tunnel into
~ Michael DiMercurio
It flew straight down
~ Sylvia Plath
Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Nice nosedive," Warren said
~ Brandon Mull
She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
~ Henry James