Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you didn't even have a name for.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth as if the taste of lies was homey appetizing: a habit.

When I saw corruption I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Don't let your special character and values the secret that you know and no one else does the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

For one swallow does not make a summer nor does one day and so too one day or a short time does not make a man blessed and happy.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily although I tried.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Bats drink on the wing like swallows by sipping the surface as they play over pools and streams.

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Flattery is like cologne water to be smelt not swallowed.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.