Racked Quotes
30 quotes by 24 authors
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just…
— Agatha Christie
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit,…
— Mary Antin
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives...…
— Susan Orlean
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Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
— Mary Antin
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Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with…
— Geoff Davis
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God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can…
— Jerry Bridges
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I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember;…
— Stijn Streuvels
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At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's…
— Frederick Lenz
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Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.
— Bob Seger
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Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can…
— Beth Ditto
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The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
— Steven Pinker
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Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,…
— Martin Amis
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I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to…
— Rick Riordan
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I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me,…
— Anne Lamott
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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they…
— Marcus Aurelius
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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on…
— Haruki Murakami
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You aren't going to go crazy," I said firmly. "You're stronger than you think. The next time you feel that way, find something to focus…
— Richelle Mead
Who Wrote These Racked Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 30 Racked Quotes as follows: