Bogs Quotes

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!

A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.