Orphaned Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom…
— Glen Duncan
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet…
— Jodi Picoult
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The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out…
— Erica Jong
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The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of…
— John L. Lewis
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Godforsaken left to rot an orphaned bastard child.
— Boondox
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Asks an orphaned childhood, I am a sign of someone's sin, or I'm result of mistake of youth their mother's . Whatever. I haven't selected…
— Mak_786
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An orphaned childhood asks, Am I the outcome of someones sin or the result of transgression committed by my mother in her youth? In any…
— Mak_786
Who Wrote These Orphaned Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 33 Orphaned Quotes, led by these top contributors: