Thud Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness…
— R. Scott Bakker
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence…
— Helen Keller
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The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like…
— Kristin Hannah
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Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.
— Bruce Springsteen
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Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge…
— Paula Rego
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I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
— James Herriot
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
— Rahm Emanuel
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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I…
— Bailey White
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The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved…
— Cecelia Ahern
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We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least…
— Cecelia Ahern
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The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with…
— Virginia Woolf
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But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were,…
— Marya Hornbacher
Who Wrote These Thud Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Thud Quotes, led by these top contributors: