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Creeping Quotes

Words on things that creep up on us.

These creeping quotes open with a wary distrust of people who creep around, before turning to how cold and fire can creep into the smallest crack in someone's courage.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

Quotes by Vincent Gallo

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

Quotes by Tim Kennedy

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a...

Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

Life has a way of creeping up on us.

Quotes by Stephanie Ruhle

Age Quotes

In the early days, I loved Facebook. I loved being able to keep tabs on hundreds of college classmates all at once, of being able to tag all my dorm mates in the photos we took on our garbage 7...

Quotes by Sarah Jeong

Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Quotes by Robert South

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Quotes by Robert Harris

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

Doing Quotes

You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

Quotes by Lillie Langtry

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Quotes by Laura Marling

I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because...

Quotes by Jane Green

I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the...

Quotes by Glen Duncan

Feel Quotes

I came into the Indian team and was touted as someone who did well only against weaker oppositions. There were doubts creeping into my game. I was looking for support, someone to put an arm around my shoulder and say...

Quotes by Gautam Gambhir

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly...

Quotes by Francis Parkman

You never know, I could show up on a 'Monday Night Raw,' I could come down to 'SmackDown Live' and snatch that title real quick. Never leave me out, you never know what's creeping around the corner, if you know...

Quotes by Eva Marie

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

I like films that sort of play out in one confined area. Films that have a feeling that you're watching a play, a contained environment and a creeping tension.

Quotes by Derren Brown

I Am Quotes

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

Quotes by David Niven

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does "creeping" describe across these quotes?
It ranges from distrust of people described as creepy and creeping around, to cold and fire creeping into the smallest crack in someone's courage, to a broader creeping paralysis affecting democracy itself, and finally to life simply creeping up on us over time.
Why does one quote repeat the word "creepy" so many times?
It's used for emphasis and rhythm, repeating the word in short bursts to build a mounting, almost sing-song sense of unease and suspicion, working up to the stated reason for not trusting or loving anyone.
What does the quote about cold and fire mean?
It describes cold and fire as having a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in someone's courage, finding whatever coward might be hiding there, using creeping as a metaphor for how fear can find even the smallest weakness.
What is the "creeping paralysis" quote warning about?
It warns against a creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy, describing it as fueled by resentment and animosity that divide one group from another and one person from another, likened to a plague. For related reflections, see Feel.
Is "creeping" ever used in a neutral or gentle way here?
Yes, one quote simply observes that life has a way of creeping up on us, a much softer, more reflective use of the word compared to the distrust or societal decay described elsewhere in the topic.

The gentlest line closes it out simply: Feel has a way of creeping up on us, whether we're ready or not.