Whole Quotes

I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it’s like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world.

Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment.

The night used to spill down onto my skin. Now it just swallows me whole.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.

That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation – a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion – that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee’s hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.