Yawning Quotes

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”

“I’m kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I’m like that, except with crying.”

“You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on.”

“This city is yawning before me, but I'm not tired.”

“One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.”

“Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.”

“No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.”

“That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.”

“How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.”

“After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity”