Deathly Quotes
47 quotes by 40 authors
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter.…
— Julia Child
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life,…
— Stephen Leacock
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
— Courtney Love
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I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows…
— Hugo Wolf
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Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From…
— Richard Bach
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When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly…
— Miguel Syjuco
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do…
— Julia Child
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I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their…
— Beryl Markham
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When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly…
— David Guterson
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The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or…
— Nicola Barker
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The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds
— Hugo Wolf
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He…
— Bram Stoker
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In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space…
— Margot Wallstrom
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I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal…
— Elizabeth Smart
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The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your…
— Marie Lu
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The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
— Edith Wharton
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Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going…
— Anne Frank
Who Wrote These Deathly Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 47 Deathly Quotes, led by these top contributors: