Top 57 Heaving Quotes

#1. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.

Angela McPherson

Heaving Quotes #10948
#2. Beside him, Gauri looked distraught. Chivalry demanded that he
should inquire after the Princess's well- being. She caught
him looking at her and frowned:
"You're heaving like a water buffalo in its death throes."
Never mind.

Roshani Chokshi

Heaving Quotes #24329
#3. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

George Gordon Byron

Heaving Quotes #70777
#4. The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Heaving Quotes #118922
#5. Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Heaving Quotes #125966
#6. Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

Rufus Choate

Heaving Quotes #141936
#7. There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

Michel Faber

Heaving Quotes #204555
#8. Are we talking hell hounds and flames here?" Des asked, pacing at the end of our beds.
I repeated the question and gave a heaving sigh of relief when Jameson said I had the wrong idea.
"He's going to 'lead us into temptation.'"
"That doesn't sound so bad," Des said with a cheeky grin.

Terri Clark

Heaving Quotes #251499
#9. He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless raincoat, 'aren't.

Robert Galbraith

Heaving Quotes #372208
#10. Out there in the middle of the maelstrom the Eater awaits, heaving and gulping, its mouth like a giant clam's . . . its mind a frenzy of beige-colored rapid foam. A horrifying uproar, all things considered. Imagine floating through that nonsense in a life jacket. - EDWARD ABBEY

Kevin Fedarko

Heaving Quotes #386706
#11. Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...

Virginia Woolf

Heaving Quotes #393987
#12. For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century ... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

Douglas Adams

Heaving Quotes #487327
#13. He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

Heaving Quotes #488168
#14. The High Mage scowled. 'All right. Maybe I was trying to scare you.
It'll be rough, though. That much is true. And over on the Silanda, Fiddler will be heaving his guts out.'
Kalam, thinking on it, suddenly smiled. 'That cheers me up.'
'Me too.

Steven Erikson

Heaving Quotes #495398
#15. We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

Alex Morrison

Heaving Quotes #527323
#16. Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Dickens

Heaving Quotes #620232
#17. It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.

William Faulkner

Heaving Quotes #633436
#18. You deserve so much more than charity," he said, his chest heaving. "You deserve to live, You deserve to be alive.

Tahereh Mafi

Heaving Quotes #748592
#19. You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he
turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.

Judith McNaught

Heaving Quotes #786155
#20. What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions ...

Marvin Minsky

Heaving Quotes #798639
#21. I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Brian Swimme

Heaving Quotes #825293
#22. Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

Robert Herrick

Heaving Quotes #838767
#23. She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Heaving Quotes #868158
#24. He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.

Neil Gaiman

Heaving Quotes #878923
#25. I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.

Homer

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#26. My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to shreds.

Tahereh Mafi

Heaving Quotes #966510
#27. Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

Horace Mann

Heaving Quotes #1020610
#28. At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain.
I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it.
There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

John Green

Heaving Quotes #1029590
#29. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Albert Schweitzer

Heaving Quotes #1090543
#30. Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
As in a foundering ship.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heaving Quotes #1095790
#31. And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

Paul Hamilton Hayne

Heaving Quotes #1097482
#32. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

Bob Feller

Heaving Quotes #1147469
#33. Babies weren't babies - they were land mines; bear traps; wasp nests. They were a noise, which was sometimes even not a noise, but merely a listening for a noise; they were a damp, chalky smell; they were the heaving, jerky, sticky manifestation of not-sleep.

Kelly Link

Heaving Quotes #1152692
#34. The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam,
Our arms are waving, our lips are apart ...

William Butler Yeats

Heaving Quotes #1159326
#35. Clary didn't ask what that was. She was busy trying not to fall over. The ground was heaving up and down under her feet. "Jace," she said, and crumpled into him. He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it every day. Maybe he did.

Cassandra Clare

Heaving Quotes #1163041
#36. We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.

Thomas Hood

Heaving Quotes #1216597
#37. She had not thought of them as "fat," though. She had thought of them as "big," because one of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment like "stupid" or "bastard," and not a mere description like "short" or "tall.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heaving Quotes #1221955
#38. Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

Stephen King

Heaving Quotes #1237779
#39. Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

Tamara Rose Blodgett

Heaving Quotes #1243993
#40. Edwin's creations landed hit or miss on the board and one miss a year ago ended with us heaving overboard for a week. Fortifying meal solutions, my ass.

Katherine McIntyre

Heaving Quotes #1250985
#41. In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.

Tim Heaton

Heaving Quotes #1261300
#42. When I see an actress or actor drag deeply in a movie, I imagine the pyrenes and phenols ravaging the tender epithelial cells and hardworking cilia of their bronchi, the monoxide and cyanide binding to their hemoglobin, the heaving and straining of their chemically panicked hearts.

Jonathan Franzen

Heaving Quotes #1298426
#43. A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

John Cheever

Heaving Quotes #1306979
#44. Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For

Anthony Trollope

Heaving Quotes #1340514
#45. On the grave among the pine trees, a boy knelt weeping, his chest, racked by sobs, heaving in the darkness, oppressed by an immense grief gentler than the moon and more unfathomable than the night.

Gustave Flaubert

Heaving Quotes #1371433
#46. Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.

Booth Tarkington

Heaving Quotes #1403523
#47. I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.

Donna George Storey

Heaving Quotes #1435925
#48. Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Heaving Quotes #1449717
#49. If truth be told, Jaime had come to rue heaving Brandon Stark out that window.

George R R Martin

Heaving Quotes #1492683
#50. I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather ... Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaving in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't hep but suffer in comparison.

Douglas Coupland

Heaving Quotes #1522634
#51. She'd had sex with a demon. Tayla swallowed bile and tried to keep her stomach from heaving. She needed to shower. And douche.

Larissa Ione

Heaving Quotes #1573225
#52. She is stunning in her anger. Her eyes are bright, her chest is heaving and all I want to do is slam against her into nearest wall. I take a deep breath to calm the hormones, again."- Alex.

M.R. Field

Heaving Quotes #1621257
#53. The bones cry for the blood of the white whale,
The fat flukes arch and whack about its ears,
The death-lance churns into the sanctuary, tears
The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail,
And hacks the coiling life out ...

Robert Lowell

Heaving Quotes #1647910
#54. Momentum carried the truck's rear wheels up and off the ground. From the perspective of Howard's low-slung sports car, the heaving back end of the truck was the mouth of a monster gaping wide to swallow him.

Dan Webb

Heaving Quotes #1653577
#55. One of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heaving Quotes #1742309
#56. Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.

Robert Galbraith

Heaving Quotes #1841471
#57. Bone-white moths drop one by one to cover cuts on Odette's legs and obscure mud-water splotches patterning her skirts. They rest at the bases of her fingers like heaving white jewels on rings lighter than air.

Camille Alexa

Heaving Quotes #1861679

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