Surrendered Quotes
136 quotes by 117 authors
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Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief,…
— Roger Zelazny
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When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably…
— Yukio Mishima
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He shifted his weight, throwing his good leg off the bed as if he were going to try to stand. “What are you doing?†I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m…
— Daniel Handler
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
— Patti Smith
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had…
— Mitch Albom
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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better…
— Og Mandino
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Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
— Adolf Hitler
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In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power,…
— Sri Chinmoy
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You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you…
— Robert Gottlieb
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of…
— J. G. Ballard
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Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in…
— Jim Webb
Who Wrote These Surrendered Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 136 Surrendered Quotes, led by these top contributors: