Stripped Quotes

195 Stripped quotes by 185 unique authors

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about… — Michael Crichton
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured… — Salman Rushdie
Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car… — Jen Lancaster
She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly… — Cassandra Clare
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… — Kate Morton
Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his hounds to kill… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,… — Juliet Marillier
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And… — J R Ward
I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He… — Holly Black
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that… — Pablo Picasso
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the… — Boris Pasternak
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among… — C.S. Lewis
Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that… — Kelley Armstrong
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me . — Maggie Stiefvater
He shrugged. "I was...thinking." "About what?" "The fires of purgatory." She had to sit down. He wasn't making any sense now. "What does that mean?"… — Julie Garwood
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after… — Joseph Conrad
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,… — Paulo Coelho
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over… — Jonathan Stroud
He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped… — Douglas Preston
Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked. — Becca Fitzpatrick
I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am… — Paulo Coelho

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