Bird Quote by Hannah Kent Download Open image “The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.” — Hannah Kent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Encroaches Mind Fists Flutters Like Gloom Gloom Encroaches Heart Heart Flutters Mind My heart Psychology Sad
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet. — Tyga Copy Share Image
“Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a nest of… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“I might have starved to death. I would be mud-slick, stuffed to the guts with cold and hopelessness, and my body might know it… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Illugastadir, the farm by the sea, where the soft air rings with the clang of the smithy, and gulls caw, and seals roll over… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Some folks are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with skin a little a thinner, eyes a little keener… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“It was not hard to believe a beautiful woman capable of murder, Margret thought.As it says in the sagas, Opt er flago i fogru… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
