Piercing Quotes

108 quotes by 94 authors

The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I… — Margaret Atwood
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose… — Anne Rice
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,… — Denis Johnson
Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing… — Tite Kubo
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in… — Pablo Neruda
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of… — Charles Dickens
I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing… — Peter HÃ¸eg
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the… — Sarah Waters
Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarationsâ€¦ Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small… — Marvin J. Ashton
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?" he murmured, leaning closer to me as he spoke, his… — Stephenie Meyer
That same piercing screech in her voice every time at the hospital. "Do something!" When I slit my wrists. "Help her!" The last time too.… — Julie Anne Peters
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying — David Sheff
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were… — Charles Dickens
Iâ€™ve stopped talking because thereâ€™s really nothing left to say and thereâ€™s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe Iâ€™m even having… — Suzanne Collins
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… — Nikolai Gogol
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear… — William Shakespeare
I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be… — Nalini Singh
When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear… — Simone Elkeles

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