vigils QUOTES

1 " He's a hedonist at heart. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a façade. Or only like foam on the seashore. Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. He makes no secret of it... He has a bourgeois mind. He has filled His world full of pleasures. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Screwtape Letters

2 " While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. "

― Alexander Pope , The Dunciad

3 " The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil. "

― Darnell Lamont Walker

4 " He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now. "

― Mallika Nawal , I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE (I'm a Woman, #1)

5 " And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here. "

― Jennifer A. Nielsen , The Runaway King (Ascendance, #2)

6 " Here you will meet singular side-whiskers, tucked with extraordinary and amazing art under the necktie, velvety whiskers, satiny whiskers, black as sable or coal, but, alas, belonging only to the foreign office. Providence has denied black side-whiskers to those serving in other departments; they, however great the unpleasantness, must wear red ones. Here you will meet wondrous mustaches, which no pen or brush is able to portray; mustaches to which the better part of a lifetime is devoted––object of long vigils by day and by night; mustaches on which exquisite perfumes and scents have been poured, and which have been anointed with all the most rare and precious sorts of pomades, mustaches which are wrapped overnight in fine vellum, mustaches which are subject to the most touching affection of their possessors and are the envy of passers-by. A thousand kinds of hats, dresses, shawls––gay-colored, ethereal, for which their owners' affection sometimes lasts a whole two days––will bedazzle anyone on Nevsky Prospect. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

7 " Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity. "

― Joyce Carol Oates , A Widow's Story