Crumbling Quotes

102 Crumbling quotes by 95 unique authors

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how… — Steven Erikson
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters… — Haruki Murakami
When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel. — Saul Williams
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the… — P.D. James
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The… — Garth Nix
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and… — Rob Thurman
It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of… — James A. Baldwin
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek… — Markus Zusak
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It… — Simone de Beauvoir
I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], — Kristin Hannah
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when… — Max Brooks
They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours… — Ilona Andrews
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami
It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it — Julie Orringer
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto… — E E Cummings
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will… — Abbi Glines
Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our… — Sheldon Vanauken
She was the rock in a world that was crumbling — Abbi Glines
I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling… — Haruki Murakami
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules. — Neil Gaiman
Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a… — George Edward Woodberry

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