Crush Quotes - Page 5

• They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Islands, Worry

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.67, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Kissing, Fire, Rocks

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• A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Emptiness, Heavy

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.25, Anchor

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• He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Past, Giving

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Hands, Poison

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• She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  Voltaire

  Voice, Knowing, Spokes

  Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.16, Bantam Classics

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• I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Revenge, Home, Heart

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Heart, Boys

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Blood Roses”, Harper Collins

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• Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Self, Soul, Hiding

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

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• His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

  Irvine Welsh

  Eye, Soul, Bats

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.117, Random House

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• You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually. His nonconformity is admirable and he's survived things that would crush a lesser male. Don't know that being in love with him would be easy, however." Blay didn't go near that one. "So do you come here often?" Saxton laughed, his pale eyes glinting, "Not for discussion, huh.

  J.R. Ward

  Cousin, Eye, Character

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.263, Penguin

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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Men, Being Free, Literature

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Men, Honor

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• ...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

  Larissa Ione

  Horror, Needed

  FaceBook post by Larissa Ione from Jan 21, 2017

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• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  Ted Nugent

  War, Evil, Survival

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• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  Gary Numan

  Mother, Dad, Wife

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Heart, Justice, President

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• The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Men, Usa, Growing

  "Red meat from T-Paw" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. June 6, 2009.

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• I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Brad, Enormous

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Laughing, Black, Cracks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Giving Up, Smart

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

  Russell Brand

  Ordinary, Mediocrity, Opinion

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• I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

  Hilary Swank

  Fear, Justice, Roles

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• Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Dream, Heart

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 30, 2011

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• It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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