Corruption Quote by Thomas Paine

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities…

— Thomas Paine

“In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird”

— thomas paine

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore

“In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain…

— Victor Hugo

“The time has come, The claws are passed. An old owl rests, A die’s been cast. It is a war for heart, Gizzard and…

— Kathryn Lasky

“I have found that a woman who wishes a man to hear what she says can best do so by first telling him his…

— Annelisa Christensen

“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died in him,…

— Hermann Hesse

“And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them…

— Aleksandra Layland

“He felt the ground frail as a bird’s skull under his feet, a mere shell of sanity and decorum between him and the dark…

— Sylvia Plath

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“One day he trapped a large raven, whose wings he painted red, the breast green, and the tail blue. When a flock of ravens…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright…”

— Stephen King