Quotes About Suddenness

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.

life seems to shorten itself, and all of a sudden

Un enorme puño invisible sacudía el cielo. La camilla, las sillas, las repisas, los cascos de acero, los zapatos, la ropa, todo se destrozó, salió volando revuelto y con estruendo, para venir a caer al suelo encima de mí. De repente, un viento polvoroso me entró muy hondo por la nariz y me costó respirar. Al abrir los ojos de par en par, miré obviamente hacia la ventana. Afuera, todo se había oscurecido en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.

Patched-together or hard-won coverings of positivity flew away with ridiculous suddenness, like hats, or else gradually and unceremoniously, over days, like paint.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable, or more cruel.

Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power.

You know the pop is coming, but damn if it don't always surprise you.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

The news came like a thunderclap.

The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athward and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.

He started to speak, but his father, looking away from him toward the east, made a sound, and they were both caught, as a swimmer on the surface is caught by that cold current whose suddenness snares him in cramps and sends him in dumb surprise to the bottom.

She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Le persone che amiamo possono esserci portate via in un battito di ciglia. All'improvviso. Senza nessun avvertimento.

To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known.

Malcolm was watching everything, looking around unobtrusively, and as the speaker began again, he noticed something: the armed police had quietly vanished. There'd been a man at each of the six exits. Now there were none.

All this, this luck – what did it mean? Coming so suddenly, and on such a scale, it was as baffling as a misfortune.

He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

She looked at him and realized that she loved him, out of nowhere, pure and simple. She loved him: this boy who fit so naturally in the water, the wild, and in everything else. She loved him: this boy who seemed to grow up out of the ground itself. There was a part of her that had known this from the first time she had seen him. This was what love was: a landslide in your heart.

In a way, sharks are like tornadoes. they touch down here, but not there. they wipe out this house but suddenly veer away and miss the house next door.

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.