Clutched Quotes

51 quotes by 45 authors

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away. — DeWitt Wallace
She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that… — Connie Brockway
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the… — Jim Elliot
I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a… — P.G. Wodehouse
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul… — Helen Keller
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near! — Abigail Williams
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow… — Sri Aurobindo
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into… — Helen Keller
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of… — Chuck Palahniuk
The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. — Truman Capote
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in… — Kage Baker
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for… — Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as… — Henry David Thoreau
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense… — Richard Wright
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.… — Richard Wright
But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever… — Audrey Niffenegger
It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so… — Gregory Maguire
I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid… — Kim Harrison
People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made… — Paolo Giordano

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