Overpowering Quotes

59 Overpowering quotes by 55 unique authors

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me… — Will Self
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. — Naveen Jain
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person… — Greta Scacchi
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels… — Emma Watson
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. — Lawrence Welk
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's… — Haruki Murakami
Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the… — Melissa Marr
Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor… — Kate Chopin
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we… — Sylvia Plath
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen
Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just… — Caroline Stevermer
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard… — Natsuo Kirino
It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves… — Cassandra Clare
The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or… — L.A. Weatherly
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we… — R C Sproul
He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against… — Cassandra Clare
She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable. — Laini Taylor
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in… — Henri Nouwen
Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black. — Dejan Stojanovic
There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise.… — Libba Bray
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under… — Jon Krakauer
I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I… — Paul Simon

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