Leached Out Quotes

#1. I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?

John Zerzan

#2. Be careful with your beak,' I chided her. She turned her shining eyes on me. 'I am careful, stupid Fitz.

Robin Hobb

#3. Nothing moves in a straight line

R. Gregory Lande

#4. The world seemed leached of color. The river was the color of steel, the sky gray as a dove, the horizon a thick black painted line in the distance.

Cassandra Clare

#5. The detritus of animal and plant life that had died miles above. It fell steadily through each zone of the ocean, down and down, shredding into flakes, leached of pigment until it became bone white. A snow of death.

Nick Cutter

#6. So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me
the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

Jessica Sorensen

#7. We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.

Danielle Ganek

#8. I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air. My muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to

Suzanne Collins

#9. I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

Lewis Black

#10. How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

Roman Abramovich

#11. The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached. Red love, once clutched to breast, putrefies and is thrown to the midden.
The hand leaked life as meaning was pucked. Putrefaction clutched love and was thrown to the midden.

Michael R. Fletcher

#12. The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

Richard Tarnas

#13. Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.

Robert Oppenheimer

#14. I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said 'I've stopped buying the New York Times.' Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.

Bernard Goldberg

#15. It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls don't live in their bodies anymore because they've leached so much of themselves into their work.

Katja Millay

#16. All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colors. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.

George R R Martin

#17. When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.

Julia Cameron

#18. The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Doris Janzen Longacre