Utter Quotes

526 quotes by 447 authors

A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.… — Stephen King
Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs? — Tessa Dare
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and… — William Styron
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation… — Winston Churchill
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,… — Christopher Isherwood
There are only so many times that you can utter â€˜It does not hurtâ€™ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have… — Marisha Pessl
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to… — Ann Patchett
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which… — Michael Palin
But words are vain; reject them allâ€” They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of… — George MacDonald
Well, thatâ€™s just a little hard, since I canâ€™t even talk her into sparing your life, huh? You havenâ€™t exactly endeared yourself to her. (Kat)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you are? (Xypher) Pissed off. You wrecked my car, shoved me around, and are a complete and utter dickhead! (Simone) Dear God, what a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was… — Wilkie Collins
As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the… — Ann Aguirre
...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. — Jonathan Safran Foer
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
I say, Watson,â€™ he whispered, â€˜would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a… — Thomas Merton

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