#utter

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. ↗

— Max Muller

#around #dark #feel #feeling #forgotten

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? ↗

— Max Muller

#chrysalis #dust #makes #sin #which

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship #substitute #supplied #taken-for-granted #utterly

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#around #confused #control #everything #felt

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#being #corrupt #corruption #down #i

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#comes #ends #finds #history #long

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#flight #heavier #impossible #insignificant #machines

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#background #comedian #environment #family #family background