Pierced Quotes

112 Pierced quotes by 96 unique authors

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep... — John Milton
The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. — Charles Dickens
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity. — C.D. Payne
He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making… — Laurell K. Hamilton
My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is… — Jean Genet
I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast… — Mary Pickford
You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have… — Lauren Myracle
The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the… — Georgette Heyer
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been… — Virginia Woolf
it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100… — Tom Waits
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was… — Jeaniene Frost
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. — Veronica Roth
Don't take this next undercover assignment. Stay with me instead." Nick's eyes pierced hers, refusing to let her off that easily. "Tell me why." "Because...… — Julie James
Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm… — Joel Salatin
Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she… — Cassandra Clare
Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and… — Steig Larsson
My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass. — Federico Garcia Lorca
I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear — William Shakespeare

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