Best Wrenching Quotes
51 Wrenching quotes by 48 unique authors
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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
— James Taylor
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WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,…
— Walt Whitman
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Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of…
— Anita Shreve
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Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling…
— Julie Andrews
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If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
— Sheri L. Dew
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Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
— Deb Caletti
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I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
— Nicholas Sparks
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The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other…
— Gail Caldwell
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She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d…
— Dennis Lehane
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...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in…
— Darynda Jones
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Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own…
— Dean Koontz
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....called to give you the good news. I asked our daughter to marry me and she accepted. Congratulations, I will officially your son-in-law. Now, do…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
— Walker Percy
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He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the…
— J R Ward
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It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
— Jon Katz
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Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.
— Vivek Wadhwa
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed…
— Martha Beck
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At the very least marriage is a miscarriage of expectation, at its worst a wrenching disappointment with destiny.
— Bill Cosby
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I could live a thousand lifetimes and never feel with someone else the way you make me feel. It's this terrifying and heart wrenching kind…
— Fad Ibra
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It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.
— Corbin Bernsen
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If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre,…
— Delta Burke
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