Pause Quotes

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.”
― Lori Deschene

“If this were a game, he could hit pause. He could restart, say different things, the right ones this time. He could search his inventory for the item that would make Sadie not leave.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

“Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

“The menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God's word is a life of miraculous beauty!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A pause; it endured horribly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Life is not what we’re chasing. Life is what we’re leaving behind in the chasing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Time is a constant force, like two poles connected by an elastic string. Taking a pause in life is like stretching that string, gathering energy to propel us forward with greater force and speed.”
― Supratim Das

“For a time he stood listening and looking down at the town, at the smoke starting up from the chimneys and the small, diminishing stars in the sky. One of the brightest fell while he was standing there, leaving a streak like a chalk mark on a board for just a second before it vanished.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Peace is not a cause,
Peace is a pause -
Pause in hate and greed,
Pause in gain and loss.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“To pause is not the same as to stop”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“The Wait in A.W.E. is the pause in which we experience presence - that quality of spaciousness where the mind isn't overthinking and processing but being an observer.
With presence, there's no agenda. Nothing to do and no place to be. There's no thinking. Just being.
Because we have chosen to be in the presence of something we value, appreciate or find amazing, our experience of that moment is nourishing and powerful.
Waiting, when done with intention, is one way to be fully present.”
― Jake Eagle LPC, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

“Nevertheless, death asks us to pause. It doesn’t tell us what we need to do when we pause (there may be nothing to do at all), but it asks us to be in its presence. To sit with it. Listen to it. To lay aside chronos and embrace kairos.”
― Caleb Wilde, Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

“Our thoughts and emotions are like a train—
we have a choice whether or not to jump on it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Life is full of simple pleasures;
if one does not know how to enjoy them,
one would easily miss out on it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“It's not the end, Table Girl. We're just hitting pause.
LBxx
PS ILY”
― Holly Smale, Picture Perfect

“‬"Which‬‭ one‬‭ of‬‭ you‬‭ first?"‬‭ the‬‭ Lion‬‭ challenged.‬ "I'll‬‭ fight‬‭ you.‬‭ Both‬‭ together‬‭ if‬‭ you‬‭ want.‬‭ I'll‬‭ fight‬‭ you‬‭ on‬ one..." He paused dramatically, raising a paw, "foot."‬ Dorothy frowned. "Why the long pause?"‬ The‬‭ Lion‬‭ glanced‬‭ at‬‭ his‬‭ paws.‬‭ "I‬‭ don’t‬‭ know—I‬ was‬‭ born‬‭ with‬‭ them!"‬”
― GLEN NESBITT, We're Off

“When you have thoughts, just hold onto them. See where they take you, and as time passes, you'll find out if you were right. Never decide right at the start if something is right or wrong.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“Every silence is a form of punishment in its own way, but the silence that lingers between two pauses is the most lethal of all—heavy with unspoken words, unresolved emotions, and the weight of what was left unsaid.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“Most people never ‘stop and smell the roses’ because they never get that far down the road.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“Sometimes, the best productivity hack is doing absolutely nothing”
― Daniel Wieser

“Would there be a little space, she wondered, a little time, some way to hold off eventfulness, to push busyness into the corners of the room and just stand there a minute or two.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else-doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouched in corners, and the passing of time-was interference.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“There are times when the best thing you can do is turn off your brain for a while. Stop trying to figure everything out. Don’t think, don’t solve, don’t worry. Just sit in silence. Let your mind rest, like how your body rests when it’s tired. This quiet moment is not a waste — it’s how you heal, how you recharge, and how you come back stronger.”
― Abdul Wahid Sarguroh

“Language is just an over-glorified byproduct, real conversation happens between the pauses.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You don’t heal by pushing harder. You heal by learning to pause, gently and consistently, even while your brain tries to talk you out of it.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor