Absolutely Gutted Quotes

#1. Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Tom DeLay

#2. The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.

Ayn Rand

#3. Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.

Lorraine Hansberry

#6. my mother died unexpectedly, and in the months that followed I'd been gutted to discover that without our conversations, which I'd always assumed would be there for the having, I had absolutely no idea how to make sense of myself.

Kate Bolick

#7. In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

Richard Engel