Whimsy Quotes

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

~ Mary Oliver

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

~ John Burnham Schwartz

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.

~ T.r. Wallace

I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes standsas if considering how to cool avian plastic,dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;how take flight on dayglow flap-doodle wings, no matterif it is ball-bald going nowhere fast.

~ Joyce Thomas

Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.

~ Ellen Van Neerven

To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.

~ Ransom Riggs

We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun.

~ Candace Havens

Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon

~ John Geddes