Tattered Quotes

40 quotes by 36 authors

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the… — Emilie Autumn
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table. — Homer
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately… — Jon Stewart
Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners.… — Knut Hamsun
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,… — H. L. Mencken
I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and… — Gautama Buddha
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.… — Tove Jansson
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is… — James Russell Lowell
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies… — Thomas Jefferson
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for… — William Butler Yeats
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to… — Stephen Cosgrove
in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel… — Adrienne Rich
Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and… — Werner Herzog
I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to… — Ellen Hopkins
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined… — Janet Fitch
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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