Stared Quotes

432 quotes by 252 authors

Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black… — Robin Spriggs
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can… — Oliver Burkeman
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant… — Edward Tufte
I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been… — Jennifer Saunders
I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline… — Brad Alan Lewis
I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he… — Brad Alan Lewis
I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at… — Terry McMillan
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It… — Meg Ryan
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my… — Janet Fitch
I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a… — Cheryl Strayed
Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same… — Taylor Stevens
I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center… — Whitney Houston
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. — Mignon McLaughlin
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born,… — Andy Kaufman
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them. — Billy Corgan
A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets… — Karl Philipp Moritz
The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… — Charles Dickens
I took the right leg of that woman's body, from the knee to the hip took the fat off and ate it while he stared… — Arthur Shawcross

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