Edge Quotes

1418 Edge quotes by 1078 unique authors

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what… — Paul Auster
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and… — Alice Sebold
By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost.… — Nick Flynn
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws… — Thomas Pynchon
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the… — C.S. Lewis
I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into… — Christopher Moore
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together,… — Sarah Dessen
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain — Bob Dylan
Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the… — Melissa Marr
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and… — M. Scott Peck
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge… — George Santayana
He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or… — Czeslaw Milosz
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and… — Carlos Fuentes
Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to… — Pema Chodron
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There… — Anne Rice
When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and… — Tamora Pierce
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense,… — Michael Crichton

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