Touched Quotes

958 Touched quotes by 759 unique authors

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in… — Harold Brodkey
If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a… — Joyce Carol Oates
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I… — Helen Keller
She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can… — Monica Ali
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more. — Paul Valery
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's… — Christopher Paolini
We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake… — Jeanette Winterson
It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own… — Nicholas Sparks
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very… — Charles Dickens
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal… — Rosamunde Pilcher
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything… — Haruki Murakami
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. — Edgar Allan Poe
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if… — Lisa Kleypas
When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. — Jack Kerouac
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after… — Jack London
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad
Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything. — Michael Ondaatje
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was… — Patricia Highsmith
While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll… — James Patterson
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. — Paul Theroux

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