Withered Quotes

100 quotes by 86 authors

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that… — Alexandre Dumas
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath… — Lewis Carroll
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? — Honore de Balzac
The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go… — Gustave Flaubert
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all… — Antonio Machado
...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so… — Mira Grant
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. — Arthur Golden
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it… — Ivan Turgenev
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to… — Rachel Cohn
Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails… — J.R.R. Tolkien
What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away. — Carolyn Meyer
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together… — Jeanette Winterson
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such… — Hermann Hesse
I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, thatâ€™s all Iâ€™m… — Catherine Anderson
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen… — Charles Dickens
The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has… — George R. R. Martin
To write is to pour oneâ€™s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes oneâ€™s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Evie hadnâ€™t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, sheâ€™d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently… — Libba Bray

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