A Whimper Quotes

#1. That's the thing, darling. We want more than just tonight. He twined his fingers into her wet hair and yanked her down for a kiss. A whimper sounded at the back of her throat. His kiss was pure dominance. Possessive. Aggressive. And with enough fire to brand her lips as his own.

Milly Taiden

#2. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal. But if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

Pierre Trudeau

#3. It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret.

Mira Grant

#4. Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

T.E. Lawrence

#5. After a moment, he found my neck, kissing the nape, his teeth grazing my skin and causing
me to make a small noise very much like a whimper. Before I could take another breath, his
lips met mine and I was lost to his touch.

Cyrese Covelli

#6. What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Lauren Myracle

#7. The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party.

Rocky Anderson

#8. Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Child

#9. If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#10. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. The world won't end with a bang.
The world won't end with a whimper.
In fact, the world won't end at all.
But it will change and if we refuse to change with it ...
It will be us that ends.

Madeline Sheehan

#12. This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

Charles Krauthammer

#13. History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Elliott Abrams

#14. My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.

Shannon Celebi

#15. This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference.

Nigel Balchin

#16. Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Neal Shusterman

#17. When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.

Tim LaHaye

#18. I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that - gone.

Jenny Han

#20. The poems are all wrong.
It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper.
And sometimes gold can stay.

Kami Garcia

#21. The world did not end with a bang, nor did it end with a whimper. It was more of a chomp. And a slurp.

J. Rudolph

#22. Welcome to the end of the world, it said. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Anonymous

#23. Her mind whited out, and she coughed. It sounded suspiciously like a whimper. "Well, okay. I guess I blew that round again, didn't I?"
"I don't know," he whispered. "Did you? I found your choice of topic extremely interesting.

Thea Harrison

#24. The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.

F.K. Preston

#25. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#26. No need to be embarrassed," he said. "Although if you need some practice before your wedding, I'm more than willing to help for free."
Scarlett attempted to make a sound of disgust, but it came out more like a whimper.
"Was that a yes?" Julian asked.

Stephanie Garber

#27. This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a band but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#28. Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat was, in reality, just a whimper? Would my footsteps always stop so suddenly and sink into the footpath?

Markus Zusak

#29. And the cosmos ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke.

Victoria Schwab

#31. This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Andrea Speed

#32. Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone, but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper.

James Patterson

#33. I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#34. Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Eskinder Nega

#35. Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper ...

John J. Ainsworth

#36. The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Darren Shan

#37. Just the tip, sweetheart." He nudges against me, slipping along my wetness, as I whimper. His voice goes dark. "Just for a second.

Kristen Callihan

#38. A small whimper escaped her throat, then she desperately pulled her eyes away.

Steven Erikson

#39. Deep in my chest, a burning sensation emerges, as if any minute the suppressed panic that has been simmering is going to burst out. I squeeze my eyes shut again, for the pain has become unbearable. Another soft whimper escapes.

Kimberly Readnour

#40. Whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. So she

Rudyard Kipling

#41. Why, an old, mangy dog, warming himself at the hearth, and struggling to his feet with a little
whimper to welcome his master home - why, that dog has more memories than I! At least he
recognizes his master. His master. But what can I call mine?

Jean-Paul Sarte

#42. The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#43. Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every plea for mercy. For death. He hears. He just doesn't give a fuck.

Jason Aaron

#44. There were a thousand words for dreams realized and only one common whimper for hopes interrupted.

Susan Meissner

#45. The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.

Gena Showalter

#46. The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.

Terry Pratchett

#47. Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot.
'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

James Patterson

#48. She picked up a slice of Victoria Sponge, broke it into large pieces and tossed them in their direction. I hadn't had any yet, and could not suppress a small whimper. 'It's for science, Director,' she said. 'We must all make sacrifices.

Jodi Taylor

#49. ...The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.

C.S. Lewis

#50. When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Stephen King

#51. The force of life fills out our tissues with its pulsing vibrancy and puffs them up with the pride of being alive. Whether it departs with a bang, or a prolonged whimper, it often leaves behind an object of shrunken unrealness.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#52. his whimper dying in his throat. There had been a flash of white moonlight reflecting off pale skin, and when the second one passed, he clapped his hand over his mouth to stifle his cry of terror at what he saw. The

Neal Stephenson

#53. Sometimes, wanting to impress is what keeps us moving when all we really want to do is curl up in a fetal position and whimper.

Kelley Armstrong

#54. We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#55. This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

Martin Firrell

#56. Jo's whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn't materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.

Martin Pond

#57. Not a cute little whimper. Not a plaintive little wail. A full-throated, piercing "This Woman Has Kidnapped Me, Call the Cops" scream.

Sophie Kinsella

#58. I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.

Barbara Woodhouse

#59. We broke into laughter - the kind that's your only recourse when you feel like curling up in a fetal position and whimpering like a little girl.

M.A. George