Worn Out Quotes

112 Worn Out quotes by 102 unique authors

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him… — Sarah Dessen
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too… — Albert Camus
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
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
In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race.… — Jean Webster
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath. — Mark Doty
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears… — Rabindranath Tagore
Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what… — Kij Johnson
I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your… — Katie MacAlister
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. — Martin Heidegger
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out… — Gretchen Rubin
…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
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 weren’t worth wiping his nose on—people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
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

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