Given Up Quotes

240 quotes by 212 authors

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it… — Neil Gaiman
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very… — Italo Svevo
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing… — Edith Wharton
I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing… — Sheri L. Dew
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that… — Anne Fadiman
Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove… — Sarah Dessen
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. — Randy Pausch
He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or… — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When… — Randy Pausch
Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?" I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and… — Janet Evanovich
Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster,… — Christopher Pike
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of… — John Gray
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them.… — Alice Sebold
To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit. — Maya Angelou
When something seems â€˜the most obvious thing in the worldâ€™ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht
I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had… — Sarah Dessen
I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will… — Yann Martel
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,… — Muriel Barbery
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives… — Nicole Krauss

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