Top 100 Crushed Quotes

#1. Suddenly I am crushed by the simplicity of it all: he is leaving.

James Salter

Crushed Quotes #6255
#2. I feel you. Inside. In the parts of me I crushed the night my mother died. No matter how I tried to keep you out, you got in and I couldn't let you leave me behind. So listen to me when I say this. My life is yours. You're the reason I'll stay alive. The only goddamn reason.

Dee Tenorio

Crushed Quotes #7783
#3. But before she could speak another word, he crushed his mouth against hers.

Morgan Rhodes

Crushed Quotes #8285
#4. A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

Matt Chandler

Crushed Quotes #10627
#5. Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You're all I see.

Debra Anastasia

Crushed Quotes #18337
#6. Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings - Aryn's feelings - were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.

Paul S. Kemp

Crushed Quotes #20331
#7. The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years,

Mitt Romney

Crushed Quotes #32034
#8. I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

Drake

Crushed Quotes #32998
#9. Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.

Sylvia Earle

Crushed Quotes #34978
#10. The method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive in the extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions!

Okakura Kakuzo

Crushed Quotes #37389
#11. Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like being on a commuter train through the Bronx and seeing among the piles of crushed cars a pasture with a lone white horse.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Crushed Quotes #41479
#12. Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Crushed Quotes #49257
#13. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

Martin Luther

Crushed Quotes #49613
#14. Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

Charles De Gaulle

Crushed Quotes #50438
#15. But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough' - with a sob the crushed, broken body was yanked from the ground again - 'of- 'your- justice!

Steven Erikson

Crushed Quotes #51555
#16. May the crushed spirit revived.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Crushed Quotes #52180
#17. Did you just pimp slap my ass with your angel hand?

Debra Anastasia

Crushed Quotes #53277
#18. I tried to whip some feelings up but the inside of my chest was as hollow as an empty rubbish bin; totally, absolutely dried up, with my poor, tiny heart lying at the bottom like a crushed coke can.

Deborah Kay Davies

Crushed Quotes #54594
#19. There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.

Conn Iggulden

Crushed Quotes #55922
#20. If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Bill Hybels

Crushed Quotes #57351
#21. He shook two cigarettes from a crushed paper

John Jakes

Crushed Quotes #57824
#22. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Samuel Rogers

Crushed Quotes #67863
#23. From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied by the sound of branches bending and snapping, and the splintering of wood as trees were crushed or toppled onto their sides.

Peter James West

Crushed Quotes #69183
#24. All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Michio Kaku

Crushed Quotes #70305
#25. In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine.

Patricia Storace

Crushed Quotes #72209
#26. The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Emile Zola

Crushed Quotes #76792
#27. The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Crushed Quotes #78354
#28. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.

Robin S. Sharma

Crushed Quotes #82666
#29. Nestled up against the wall, where Professor Quirrell had stumbled, glistened the crushed remains of a beautiful blue beetle.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Crushed Quotes #83551
#30. We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

Elisabeth Elliot

Crushed Quotes #88176
#31. ...if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed it had discarded the beauty of art and literature, if you thought it had crushed the power of truth, would you let that world educate your children?

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

Crushed Quotes #89027
#32. Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she'd known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she'd crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.

Nalini Singh

Crushed Quotes #102490
#33. I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

Crushed Quotes #106779
#34. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Luigi Pirandello

Crushed Quotes #108137
#35. To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.

Terry Goodkind

Crushed Quotes #110221
#36. Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.

Colin Cotterill

Crushed Quotes #115721
#37. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Gertrude Atherton

Crushed Quotes #118968
#38. So... Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.

Jenna Evans Welch

Crushed Quotes #123143
#39. I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out, Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?

Katy Perry

Crushed Quotes #125674
#40. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

Frederick Douglass

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#41. It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Mary Abigail Dodge

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#42. People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun

Peter Hessler

Crushed Quotes #133533
#43. I'm not going to end up in some heap of crushed dreams.

Steven Dos Santos

Crushed Quotes #133539
#44. Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

Neal Shusterman

Crushed Quotes #133622
#45. Sam, she said, and I crushed her to me.

Maggie Stiefvater

Crushed Quotes #141093
#46. L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

Ezra Pound

Crushed Quotes #145307
#47. I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight.

Mark A. Cooper

Crushed Quotes #152542
#48. Does that mean you agree?"
He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down."
"Fantastic.

Cassandra Clare

Crushed Quotes #152844
#49. Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great- ... Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother."
"Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.

Rick Riordan

Crushed Quotes #154855
#50. Forgiveness is the frangrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.

Shay Savage

Crushed Quotes #156221
#51. How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.

Petra Durst-Benning

Crushed Quotes #159447
#52. Science Magazine wouldn't in a dream think about publishing a single Chinese term. Chinese words and brands must be suppressed, crushed even, hold back at all costs.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

Crushed Quotes #160367
#53. Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

S.A. Tawks

Crushed Quotes #169320
#54. Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

Blair Jackson

Crushed Quotes #171326
#55. I believed in clemency, once," Captain Noble said, at last, "A long time ago, before I learned that the world is a hard place, and those who cannot bear what befalls them, no matter how ill, will be crushed in favor of those who will. There is no clemency, Ellis, only survival.

G.L. Tysk

Crushed Quotes #173589
#56. The only true disability is a crushed spirit

Aimee Mullins

Crushed Quotes #177082
#57. I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

Sophia Tolstaya

Crushed Quotes #181681
#58. You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
"I like you better this way."
"Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

Maggie Stiefvater

Crushed Quotes #185348
#59. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

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#60. You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.

Oscar Wilde

Crushed Quotes #207174
#61. As he offered to advance, she exclaimed, Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance!
one foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality!

Walter Scott

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#62. From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

Edward Grey

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#63. It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison.

Peter Swanson

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#64. Happy ending roll credits
pick our way out, over
crushed pieces of popcorn
to emerge
into the glaring light of day

Kelly Bingham

Crushed Quotes #221697
#65. Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

Emma Donoghue

Crushed Quotes #224266
#66. For the thousandth time, Adele Collier, don't open the closet door or you'll get crushed!

Kellyn Roth

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#67. But that was too simple: the idea of a man split into two by a dividing axe. Better: a man crushed into a hundred pieces of rubble, vainly trying to remember how they - he - had once fitted together. -

Julian Barnes

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#68. I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.

Fleur Adcock

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#69. He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Lech Walesa

Crushed Quotes #237086
#70. They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

Jennifer Egan

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#71. She was crushed with gratitude.

Lauren Groff

Crushed Quotes #246870
#72. Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

Alexandre Dumas

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#73. If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

Oswald Chambers

Crushed Quotes #252890
#74. I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.

Jane Birkin

Crushed Quotes #256666
#75. I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

Annie Barrows

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#76. Stripped of their property, crushed and mutilated, they still embody the nobility of Israel and the eternity of God, while their enemy - who is your enemy as well - embodies all that is most vile in man. I shall act not as their detractor, but as their melitz yosher, their intercessor.

Elie Wiesel

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#77. Mama glanced down at me. "Do you have a crush on him?"
"Not a crush." I shook my head. "More like an inflate. He makes me feel the opposite of crushed. He makes my heart feel like a balloon, like it's going to blow up and fly right out of my chest.

Natalie Lloyd

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#78. If Stanley and his father weren't always hopeful, then it wouldn't hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed

Louis Sachar

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#79. The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

Jeanette Winterson

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#80. I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

Trish Stratus

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#81. There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.

David Lloyd-Jones

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#82. When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.

Owl City

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#83. Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.

Natasha Pulley

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#84. The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Oswald Chambers

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#85. Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#86. Baby, groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

Jennifer Weiner

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#87. The five-foot blade crushed Strabonus' casque and skull, and the king's charger reared screaming, hurling a limp and sprawling corpse from the saddle. A great cry went up from the host, which faltered and gave back.

Robert E. Howard

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#88. Everything crushed in on me at once. Sure made me feel better- don't feel bad about crying. Ever.

James Dashner

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#89. Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!

Soumya V.

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#90. What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Walt Whitman

Crushed Quotes #299275
#91. Horror didn't begin to describe the look on his face. Adrian stared at me like I'd crushed his world, ground it up and then forced it down his throat until he died choking on its remains.

Jeaniene Frost

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#92. How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

Ann Voskamp

Crushed Quotes #304460
#93. What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

S. Hunter Nisbet

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#94. If we are ever going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed - you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you?

Oswald Chambers

Crushed Quotes #307695
#95. What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.

Scott Adsit

Crushed Quotes #322699
#96. I'm not mad, Mason. I am crushed. Acting mad makes it easier to deal with than letting it rip me apart.

Cheryl McIntyre

Crushed Quotes #325970
#97. Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.

Ann Napolitano

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#98. The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Adam Michnik

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#99. No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

Leonard Cohen

Crushed Quotes #332689
#100. Piragua - cold syrup trickled over crushed ice - her favorite treat from her childhood in Viejo San Juan.

Rick Riordan

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