Shattering Quotes

86 quotes by 81 authors

Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic… — Georgette Heyer
And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking. — Alexandra Potter
I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly… — Sarah Dessen
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard. — Jeaniene Frost
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to… — Tom Stoppard
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start… — Darren Shan
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since… — Dian Fossey
And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to… — Steven Erikson
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to… — Marianne Williamson
Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their… — Maya Banks
She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking… — Kami Garcia
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at… — Stanley Kubrick
As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and… — Corey Taylor
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering… — Yusuf Hamied
What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words… — Thurgood Marshall
Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back… — The X-Files

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