Creak Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,… — William Butler Yeats
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan… — William Maxwell
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when… — Andrew Solomon
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to… — Emily Dickinson
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,… — Donna Tartt
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I… — Jack Kerouac
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the… — Nathanael West
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak. — Andre Maurois
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or… — Bram Stoker
Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it… — Khaled Hosseini
Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed… — Ellen DeGeneres
It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. — Patrick deWitt

Who Wrote These Creak Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Creak Quotes as follows: