Quotes About Stinging

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.

His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.

I had a presentiment then that there is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. Looking up at that dirty youth, I was choked by desire, thinking, 'I want to change into him', thinking, 'I want to be him'.

The snow came quickly, white hornets stinging in the thin atmospheric night.

As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character.

The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.

had the awful feeling I was about to get one of those stinging assessments your children are uniquely equipped to deliver. "I

Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

respond to that except by admitting it? 'Yes. My eyes are always stinging from the smoke of it.

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not

First, what happened to the dreaded Duncan?' To her surprise, Annie found herself stinging a little. 'He wasn't so dreaded. Not by me, anyway.' She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgement and taste.

And that sarcastic levity of tongue, The stinging of a heart the world hath stung...

stitching, obviously wanting to rub the stinging site, but

Then Lamia breath'd death breath; the sophist's eye, Like a sharp spear, went through her utterly, 300 Keen, cruel, perceant, stinging: she, as well

I can't wrangle bees. I'm terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives." "Hives! That's adorbs, right?