Violent Quotes

1042 Violent quotes by 782 unique authors

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you… — Saul Bellow
For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he? — Fuyumi Soryo
He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of… — Sarah Rees Brennan
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living… — Richard Wright
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt… — Laurell K. Hamilton
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… — Hannah Arendt
We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldn’t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. — Rick Riordan
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind… — David Wong
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of… — Tennessee Williams
These violent delights have violent ends. — William Shakespeare
I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone… — Stephen Dobyns
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings. — William Shakespeare
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but… — Toni Morrison
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… — Christopher Hitchens
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous… — Nicole Krauss
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated… — Bell Hooks
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement. — Vincent Price
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent… — Jhonen Vasquez

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