Nerves Quotes

664 Nerves quotes by 537 unique authors

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself… — Oscar Wilde
Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all… — Maggie Stiefvater
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — H.G. Wells
We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's… — Pat Barker
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just… — Stephenie Meyer
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut… — Virginia Woolf
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now… — Charles Frazier
Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one… — Marilynne Robinson
It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves — MaryJanice Davidson
and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you — Taylor Swift
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation. — Don DeLillo
Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves. — Stephenie Meyer
Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure… — Audrey Niffenegger
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.… — Truman Capote
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling… — Helen Fielding
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you… — Jason Mraz
My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber,… — Veronica Roth
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the… — Sylvia Brownrigg
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking,… — Bram Stoker
He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms around his neck… — L.A. Weatherly
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were… — Terry Pratchett
The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for… — Vladimir Nabokov

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