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  • And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • … she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

    Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
  • 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.

    Sad   Solitude   Guests  
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.522, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

    Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
  • In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

  • We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

  • Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

    Jesus   Party   Doors  
  • Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

    Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.37, Penguin
  • Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

  • Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications
  • Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

    Past   Half   Welcome  
    Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
  • Uninvited criticism is insult.

  • My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

    Wall   Glasses   Light  
    Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.19, Harper Collins
  • One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.

    Running   Smell   Giving  
    Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press
  • I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

    Party   Thinking   Giving  
  • When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

  • Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

    Fate   Destiny   Men  
    Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”
  • Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

  • The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

    Ghost   Sometimes   Muse  
    Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.430, Simon and Schuster
  • The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

    Doors   House   Devil  
  • When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.

    Memories   Guests   Pops  
    Lesley Kagen (2010). “Tomorrow River”, p.24, Penguin
  • Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

    Zero   Two   Numbers  
  • I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.

  • Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

    Sleep   Doors   Sneak In  
    Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.48, Soho Press
  • It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

    Self   Perspective   Dawn  
    Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”
  • The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

    Party   Heart   Ties  
  • Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

    Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.106
  • I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

    People   Rude   Attention  
    Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.
  • When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

    Spiritual   Yoga   World  
  • I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

    Doors   Trying   Guests  
    "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
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