Hurled Quotes
51 Hurled quotes by 47 unique authors
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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the…
— Roger Waters
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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
— William Butler Yeats
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We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst…
— Joseph Addison
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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and…
— William Butler Yeats
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There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs…
— Tom Stoppard
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The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it?…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward…
— Salman Rushdie
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And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know…
— Hart Crane
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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it…
— Alice Sebold
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Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and…
— Ismail Kadaré
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Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him.…
— Ilona Andrews
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He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in…
— Douglas Adams
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The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending…
— Michael Lewis
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Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran…
— Ilona Andrews
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Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” “And you didn’t see that coming?” said…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the…
— Rachel Carson
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto…
— E E Cummings
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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet…
— Gustave Le Bon
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The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of…
— Timothy Noah
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This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
— Dorothy Parker
Who Wrote These Hurled Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 51 Hurled Quotes, led by these top contributors: