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Quotes About Crushing

As the earth presses a lump of prehistoric sung in heat and crushing weight deep under the ground. I hate him. Hate. I hate him. A jerk is forming inside my body. No it's not my heart.This it's harder, cold and clean. I wrap myself around this new jewel, cradle it within me
~ Janet Fitch
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.
~ China Mieville
Your city institutions... Talking and talking of individuals... but crushing them in layers and hierarchies... until their choices might be between three kinds of squalor.
~ China Mieville
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Grace could not have done it's curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
She started awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to death, and discovered that Clay had rolled over on top of her in the middle of the night.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to death, and discovered that Clay had rolled over on top of her in the middle of the night.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Hey, did she say something about crushing and eating someone?" Logan shouted at Zoe.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
~ Gunter Grass
No' had settled down for ever on our councils, crushing with its deadening weight what I shall ever believe was the hope of the world.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible.
~ Unknown
'Blood Host' is super heavy. Especially on the verses, it has an industrial stomp. It's one of my favourite tracks just because the plot of it is so heavy. It's a total crushing tune; it doesn't get any heavier than that main riff, just a straight quarter-note powerhouse.
~ Joey Jordison
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, psychically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
~ Zoë Heller
He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Defeat is always devastating. But it is never more crushing than when it comes after you believe you have won.
~ D.J. MacHale
OMG OMG OMG, Shane is totally crushing on the new roomie! I can't believe it. I always pictured Shane going after blond beach hotties. Who knew he liked big brains and teeny little bodies? Although, to be fair, she is cute as a button. (Why do we say that? What's so cute about a button, anyway?)
~ Rachel Caine
Through Arthur Willott's dream of alien contact and adventure, you found a doorway out of your despair, an escape from a crushing sense of having failed your mother and father.
~ Dean Koontz
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
loud. It was as if God's violence had come upon them in deepest rage, dropping temples and crushing idols to the ground.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Really you must. Nobody wishes you harm, I'm sure. FALDER. I believe that, Mr. Cokeson. Nobody wishes you harm, but they down you all the same. This feeling — [He stares round him, as though at something closing in] It's crushing me. [With sudden impersonality] I know it is.
~ John Galsworthy
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
~ Waverley Root
soul sucking vampire, a bottomless well of need. An incubus, draining my life from me. He was not my shadow; he was the entire darkness crushing me.
~ Unknown
Elle porte de grosse chaussures tristes - des sandales de nonne -, idéales pour écraser les rêves.
~ Mathias Malzieu
To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness ot his own powerlessness
~ Unknown