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Top 15 Cornell Woolrich Quotes (2025 Update)

Cornell Woolrich Quote: “It’s hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It’s harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”

1. “It’s hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It’s harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”

— Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich Quote: “Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.”

2. “Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.”

— Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich Quote: “You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”

3. “You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he’s missing a lot by being like this – fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is – if anything – ever to bring it back.”

4. “It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he’s missing a lot by being like this – fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is – if anything – ever to bring it back.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.”

5. “I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “It’s just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.”

6. “It’s just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.”

7. “Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she’d left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn’t realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.”

8. “As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she’d left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn’t realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “All guys are scared of each other, didn’t you know that? I’m not the only one. We’re all born afraid.”

9. “All guys are scared of each other, didn’t you know that? I’m not the only one. We’re all born afraid.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you’ve put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can’t, and it can’t, and it can’t.”

10. “I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you’ve put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can’t, and it can’t, and it can’t.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “Evans made himself their spokesman. “Charlie and Joe,” he offered. “Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time.” Girls evidently didn’t count in this little subdivision of the underworld; a miscalculation many a shady character has made.”

11. “Evans made himself their spokesman. “Charlie and Joe,” he offered. “Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time.” Girls evidently didn’t count in this little subdivision of the underworld; a miscalculation many a shady character has made.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “No doubt about it. We’ve made a preliminary examination, and I don’t even think we’ll have to resort to blood transfusion. What saved him more than anything else were the makeshift bandages that were found on him. If it hadn’t been for them he’d have been a goner long before he was picked up.” This went over my head at the time. I didn’t understand. I thought he meant their own bandages, the hospital’s.”

12. “No doubt about it. We’ve made a preliminary examination, and I don’t even think we’ll have to resort to blood transfusion. What saved him more than anything else were the makeshift bandages that were found on him. If it hadn’t been for them he’d have been a goner long before he was picked up.” This went over my head at the time. I didn’t understand. I thought he meant their own bandages, the hospital’s.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “The lights of the city streaked off below him like the luminous spokes of a warped wheel. An indistinctly outlined, pearly moon seemed to drip down the sky, like a clot of incandescent tapioca thrown up against the night by a cosmic comic. He lit the after-the-dance, while-waiting-for-her-to-come-back cigarette. He felt good, looking down at the town that had nearly had him licked once. “I’m all set now,” he thought. “I’m young. I’ve got love. I’ve got a clear track. The rest is a cinch.”

13. “The lights of the city streaked off below him like the luminous spokes of a warped wheel. An indistinctly outlined, pearly moon seemed to drip down the sky, like a clot of incandescent tapioca thrown up against the night by a cosmic comic. He lit the after-the-dance, while-waiting-for-her-to-come-back cigarette. He felt good, looking down at the town that had nearly had him licked once. “I’m all set now,” he thought. “I’m young. I’ve got love. I’ve got a clear track. The rest is a cinch.”

— Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich Quote: “But there are three things in this world you can’t shrug off: death, taxes – and a girl who loves you.”

14. “But there are three things in this world you can’t shrug off: death, taxes – and a girl who loves you.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “Take it easy,” he jeered, “relax. I used to be a sailor. You’ll never get out of them knots, buddy.”

15. “Take it easy,” he jeered, “relax. I used to be a sailor. You’ll never get out of them knots, buddy.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “No desolation equal to that of the pagan, suddenly bereft. For to the pagan, there is no hereafter.”

16. “No desolation equal to that of the pagan, suddenly bereft. For to the pagan, there is no hereafter.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “We said a lot of things; we said nothing.”

17. “We said a lot of things; we said nothing.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “To be worshiped, though I didn’t realize it at the moment, is a far more dangerous situation to be in than simply to be desired.”

18. “To be worshiped, though I didn’t realize it at the moment, is a far more dangerous situation to be in than simply to be desired.”

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Cornell Woolrich Quote: “Something deep within him, what it was he had no leisure nor skill to recognize, seemed to retreat down long dim corridors away from the doom that impeded. He hadn’t known he had those convenient corridors of evasion in him, with their protective turns and angles by which to put distance between himself and menace. Oh clever architect of the Mind, oh merciful blueprints that made such emergency exits available.”

19. “Something deep within him, what it was he had no leisure nor skill to recognize, seemed to retreat down long dim corridors away from the doom that impeded. He hadn’t known he had those convenient corridors of evasion in him, with their protective turns and angles by which to put distance between himself and menace. Oh clever architect of the Mind, oh merciful blueprints that made such emergency exits available.”

— Cornell Woolrich

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