Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

— William Watson

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

— Robert Lowell

“It’s the threadbare cape you’ve wrapped around yourself composed of self-pitying half truth. And it absolutely will not serve you.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

— Juvenal

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

— Emily Ratajkowski

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which…

— Anne Rice

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

— Junot Diaz

“Terror had them all for a moment, and it ravaged them, and when it was finished, shock had its way with them, and left…

— Dean F. Wilson

“But now she did belong to the ravaged city - her frame grown gaunt, her shoulders hunched from tiredness, the bone-sharp jaw line that…

— Tatjana Soli

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

— Marisha Pessl

Hip-hop got so ravaged, it's snobby now.

— Inspectah Deck

I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn't know…

— Kirk Herbstreit

I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the…

— Karen Hawkins

Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

— Anonymous

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been…

— John Denver