Fascination Quotes

“I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.”
― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome

“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”
― Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

“He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“It’s the unknown that draws people.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes,
I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being “in” the moment. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we don’t want life to pass us by, while the world is swiveling around us, let’s look inwards and turn things upside down in the inner chambers of our mind. Only after reshuffling our rooted values we can look outwards, find out the fascinations of life, and rediscover our selves, layer after layer. (“Finally unbend « )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.”
― Abbi Glines, Breathe

“A girl who travels will need someone that questions her, not too little, and not too much. She’ll need someone to read her, but also really listen to her. Because she’ll want to do the same. She’ll want a person that shares an interest but at the same time stays genuine to who they are. Not drown in a puddle of narcissism. And not drown in a lake of fascination.”
― lauren klarfeld

“As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“The “facts” about Ali’s life are few, and come from Wallace’s writing. Wallace was a careful writer, but he naturally wrote through his own perceptions, memories, and filters.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.”
― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance

“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.”
― M. H. Abrams

“I live in the dreams of those who desire me.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“I lived my youth inside the dreams of gorgeous women.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...”
― Winston Graham

“What fascinated me most were her eyes... with a single glance, she could convey the most intimate message. She had beautiful lips but almost nothing needed to be said with those eyes. Those eyes pierced mine. There are many blue eyes in the world, but her blue eyes meant heaven to me in a way that blue had never meant before.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“De natuur is altijd een externe realiteit geweest die ons overweldigt, die ons ontzag inboezemt als iets wat ongenaakbaar en onvervangbaar is. Dat ontzag voelen we veel minder voor natuur die we zelf kunnen maken en namaken.
De natuur moet juist groter zijn dan wijzelf, ons overstijgen, ons wijzen op onze onbeduidendheid. Daarom trekt ze ons aan, fascineert ze ons, krijgt ze betekenis voor ons.”
― Chris De Stoop, Dit is mijn hof

“I am so sorry, Harry,' he cried, 'but really it is entirely your fault. That book you sent me so fascinated me that I forgot how the time was going.'
'Yes, I thought you would like it,' replied his host, rising from his chair.
'I didn't say I liked it, Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.'
'Ah, you have discovered that?' murmured Lord Henry...”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Reality TV... The curse of the twenty-first century. Why were people so fascinated by being spectators to other people's lives? Watching people bake cakes, build tree houses, or just invading rich families' living rooms. It was like watching a soap opera without the plot.”
― Adam Rabinowitz, Garage Band

“True fascination is an interest so deep that it changes you.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Hey,' she says breathlessly. She has said hey to me like this every day since she got her schedule changed. I live for these heys.”
― Jenny Torres Sanchez, The Downside of Being Charlie

“Even a piece of bad writing can have its own mysterious life, and be a fascination.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“জীবনে কিছু কিছু ব্যাপার আছে যা রূঢ় হলেও সত্য। ওকে জায়গায় থেকে জীবন কাটাবো এমন ইচ্ছে থাকলে তো বাড়িতেই থাকতাম, মাকে কাঁদিয়ে গৃহত্যাগ করতাম না। ভালবাসা, বন্ধুত্ব, প্রীতির সম্পর্ক-এসব খুব ভাল জিনিস, কিন্তু যে মোহ মহোত্তর সত্য থেকে আমাদের আড়াল করে রেখেছে তার থেকে মুক্তি পেতে হলে যতই কষ্ট হোক পথে বেরিয়ে পড়তে হবে। আমি আপনাদের ভালবাসায় জড়িয়ে পড়েছি। এবার যেতে হবে।”
― Taradas Bandyopadhyay, তারানাথ তান্ত্রিক সমগ্র

“Cassandra doesn't need to read them, she knows what's inside; Mathilda doesn't ask her what that is--it doesn't matter; it won't stop her sister from being mesmerized, and when an idea worms its way inside her like this, time opens, the universe moves. Cassandra has an amazing aptitude: that of doing nothing other than thinking, yet still managing to change the world.”
― Catherine Leroux, The Future