Rend Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See…
— Khalil Gibran
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.
— Laozi
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of…
— Alexander Pope
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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each…
— Henry George
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
— Walter Scott
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
— Denis Diderot
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Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring…
— Jane Porter
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Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
— William James
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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in…
— Gregory Maguire
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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
— Margaret Atwood
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To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was…
— Virginia Woolf
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Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!†he shouted. “I…
— Rick Riordan
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Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only…
— Christopher Moore
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And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who Wrote These Rend Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Rend Quotes as follows: