Fainting Quotes

36 Fainting quotes by 32 unique authors

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go… — Dolly Parton
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt… — Herman Melville
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery. — Lynn Freed
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money… — Federico Garcia Lorca
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or not… — Ernest Bevin
My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men. — Clara Barton
O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before… — Robert Louis Stevenson
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And… — Robert Morgan
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application… — Clara Barton
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, --… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. — Ambrose Bierce
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and… — Gerald Massey
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a… — Edgar Allan Poe
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level… — Diane Setterfield
We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer… — J.R. Miller
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. — Emilie Autumn
He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday. — Cassandra Clare
It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of… — Stephenie Meyer
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. — Oswald Chambers
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when… — William Wilberforce
Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in… — John Wilmot

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