Violently Quotes

123 Violently quotes by 111 unique authors

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked… — John Steinbeck
Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that… — Jane Austen
An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center… — Bruno Schulz
...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left — John Banville
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts. — Ernest Gaines
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or… — George Clooney
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence,… — Miguel de Cervantes
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… — Joseph Brodsky
And I fell violently on my face. — Edgar Allan Poe
Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from… — Brandon Mull
A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable. — Elaine Dundy
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like… — Haruki Murakami
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell… — H. L. Mencken
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender… — Milan Kundera
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. — John Connolly
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
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her… — Abigail Reynolds
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the… — Unknown Author
They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately.… — Brandon Sanderson
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one… — Antonin Artaud
Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out,… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched… — Douglas Adams

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