Worn Quotes

525 quotes by 439 authors

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of… — George Orwell
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He… — Jean Cocteau
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common… — Oscar Wilde
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling… — Betty Smith
Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn… — Joel Osteen
When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights.… — Sarah Addison Allen
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God… — John Wesley
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of… — Janet Fitch
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people… — Richard Scarry
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… — Miriam Toews
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with… — Arthur Golden
at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is… — Terry Pratchett
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took… — Boris Pasternak
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a… — William Faulkner
So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as… — Ivan Turgenev
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes… — Marilynne Robinson

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