Gnawed Away Quotes

#1. Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was.

Christopher Paolini

#2. The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Willa Gibbs

#3. The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.

Milan Kundera

#4. From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Willa Cather

#5. Hunger gnawed at my stomach, but I was afraid someone would be in the kitchen again. So I found myself staring at the front door. Freedom seemed just a doorknob-turn away.
When I did open the door, freedom didn't wait - a half-naked Hayden did.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it.

Ogden Nash

#7. When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

Jim Thome

#8. I had been pushed as far as I could stand

Rosa Parks

#9. the rats inevitably dragged away the whole cadaver through the hole they gnawed in the coffin.

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

Mike Nichols

#11. Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Thomas Paine

#12. What is false about hope?

Mitch Albom

#13. The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

Sorin Suciu

#14. She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror.
Dance. Dress. Try a little tenderness.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

Sergio Ramos

#16. For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

Aeschylus

#17. Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

Fedor Emelianenko