Quotes About Suddenness

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly

More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers, policemen, ministers. None of them pass away peacefully, as it says in the newspapers. Their executions are violent enough.

the first thing we love is a *scene*. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness...what is immediate stands for what is fulfilled: I am initiated: the scene *consecrates* the thing I am going to love

and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm.

Oysa ben hikayesini ilk kez anlat?rken dikkate al?nmayan insanlar?n aniden ölebilece?inden korkar?m.

If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love.

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

How could a person be caught that way, in an instant, by a glance, the lift of an eyebrow, the curve of an arm? But he was.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche, the lesser psychological causes of which have not been sufficiently investigated. Nor

the first time in 15 years of television around the globe that a real life homicide had occurred in front of live cameras…. The Dallas shooting, easily the most extraordinary moments of TV that a set-owner ever watched, came with such breath-taking suddenness as to beggar description.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.

As to Emma, she did not ask herself whether she loved. Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss

Cuando la realidad te golpea es como si de pronto, en alta mar, te arrojasen por la borda en plena noche

there is still a mystery to speculate about: Why and how did many animals begin to have hard parts—skeletons of sorts—with apparent suddenness around the beginning of the Cambrian?"24

L'amour surgit devant nous comme surgit de terre l'assassin au coin d'une ruelle obscure, et nous frappa tous deux d'un coup. Ainsi frappe la foudre, ainsi frappe le poignard !

the unexpected always happens

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he'd brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

I felt rather than heard someone come up behind me and I didn't have to wonder who. My vagina had just gotten a heartbeat.

Tout à coup, Florentine entra dans la réalité. La vague d'ivresses l'abandonnait. Elle la rejetait durement.