Edge Quotes

1418 Edge quotes by 1078 unique authors

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does… — Christopher Moore
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt
What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon… — Terry Pratchett
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them… — Margaret Atwood
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a… — D. H. Lawrence
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam… — Pablo Neruda
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of… — Salman Rushdie
Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine. — Bob Dylan
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell… — Steve Toltz
Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond… — Richard Brautigan
The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet. — Ilona Andrews
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. — Chuck Palahniuk
When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she… — Toni Morrison
They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up… — Cormac McCarthy
Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked… — Cheyenne McCray
She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her… — Stephen King
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all… — J.R.R. Tolkien
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.… — Ray Bradbury
She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me. — William Shakespeare
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. — Haruki Murakami
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And,… — Haruki Murakami
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare
Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled. — Richard Matheson
Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off. — Jodi Picoult
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,… — Samuel Beckett

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