Worn Quotes

525 Worn quotes by 439 unique authors

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn… — Lisi Harrison
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears… — Alexandre Dumas
â€¦for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into… — Louisa May Alcott
My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my motherâ€™s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still… — Suzanne Collins
Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to… — Koushun Takami
All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills… — Jennifer Estep
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring… — T.H. White
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life. — Paul Celan
He didn't want the respect of people who werenâ€™t worth wiping his nose onâ€”people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. — Jim Butcher
If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire… — Sara Teasdale
He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred… — Maggie Stiefvater
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or… — Anton Chekhov
...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a… — Arthur Golden
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this… — Nora Ephron
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy… — George Eliot
It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams… — Jostein Gaarder
And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things… — Jhumpa Lahiri

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