Slow Quotes

“You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.”
― Katie MacAlister, Sex, Lies and Vampires

“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”
― Plato

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“In the first place, you can't see anything from a car.”
― ed abbey

“The ego wants to go fast. The soul needs to go slow.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“Reserve your love, not for the slow and tamed, but for the wild and adventurous.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Time drips, heavy, slow…”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“I once visited a village of primitive people.
At village, I felt time and life moved slower.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“It's only horrible if you see it that way," Morrie said. "It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time I get to say good-bye."
He smiled. "Not everyone is so lucky.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Everything grows slowly.
And if you are able to take your eyes off them, they will grow even more.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“we can work
at our own pace
and still be
successful”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“Sorry. Sorry. Please don’t— I’m sorry.” Max starts sobbing.

Lowe turns to me. “Do you accept?"

"Accept . . . the spit?”

“His apology.”

“Oh.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Things are beginning to happen, but slowly. Change, real change always takes a very long time. It sounds unfair but it isn’t. It is a universal law.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Beside him, very close beside him, was a gorgeous woman. She had masses of deep auburn hair and great violet eyes. She was not plump, yet she gave the impression of soft, rounded curves and comfortable hollows. She had an air of Mona Lisa, the Lady of Shalott. All her movements were slow with a lazy, languid indolence”
― Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

“[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself.
"Sometimes, in the mornings," he said.
"That's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands - whatever I can still move - and I mourn what I've lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“i fear as much the long, slow
suffering as the
thunderous, sudden
end”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“This taught me a lot. I needed to stay relaxed, even when I felt nervous. I had to control my emotions. To keep the horse calm, I had to calm my body and slow my breath.”
― Chris Noble, Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring Climbers

“We don’t need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don’t get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant it seems, and analyze it endlessly. It’s written off—we’re written off—as silly, but it’s the opposite. We understand instinctively that change is slow. If you’re not paying attention, you’ll miss it.”
― Laurie Frankel, One Two Three

“Do not let moss grow under slow feet.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The 2020 USA election was akin to watching President Trump being pushed off a cliff in slow motion.”
― Steven Magee

“When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“I remember when I first used the internet in the 1990’s that it looked interesting. It was very slow on a dial up modem and frustrating to use. In the 2020’s it had become a staple of life and was really fast on fiber optics!”
― Steven Magee

“You know, I think Dame Imraldera is very pretty. What do you think?"
"I think you're slower than a slug, prince, that's what I think," said the cat, and he darted on ahead up the hill.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Moonblood

“Days passed slowly and the hours took even longer.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“A writer deserves a grand finale, a climax. Not this shit, not hovering in this purgatorial slowness, a fucked up astral projection experience peering down at the mess I've become.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind