Crushed Quotes

344 Crushed quotes by 274 unique authors

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… — Thomas Hardy
You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition! — Simon Cowell
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free… — Marcus Aurelius
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed… — Ivan Turgenev
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the pastâ€”the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their… — Margaret Atwood
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair,… — Vladimir Nabokov
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back. — Jim Crace
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me... — Laurie Halse Anderson
I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was… — Kelley Armstrong
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you… — Victor Hugo
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for… — Charlotte Bronte
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but… — Margaret Atwood
Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd… — James Patterson
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a… — Margaret Atwood
I wished sheâ€™d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone… — Gail Carson Levine
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was… — Jodi Picoult
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread,… — Gregory David Roberts
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend. — Kristin Cashore
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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