Top 100 On The Verge Quotes
#1. At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
Erich Fromm
#2. You're never so alive as when you're on the verge of death.
Simon Kernick
#4. If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it,
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#5. Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.
Abeba Habtu
#6. Leave already, because I'm on the verge of hypothetically kicking my foot up your ass, and I doubt the pain of it will be pretend.
Devon Ashley
#7. If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
Michael Specter
#8. I felt on the verge of something, a mystery that surrounded me like gauze, something I was beginning to unwind.
Janet Fitch
#9. We're at war.
On the verge of an apocalypse filled with monsters and torture in a nightmare world.
And I'm standing here, a moonstruck teenager pining for an enemy soldier. What am I, crazy?
This time, I'm the first to turn away.
Susan Ee
#10. If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Ron Dellums
#11. Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
Virginia Woolf
#12. We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan Perlis
#13. [Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.
Christopher Hitchens
#14. I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them," I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)
"You are. You just don't know yet." (Victor)
A.B. Whelan
#15. An evil brute grows strong and now is on the verge of crossing over from the island to the world you know. His name is Hubal, and his strength grows as your world's lightness folds.
Soroosh Shahrivar
#16. The scariest thing about drugs is the brink of it all: when you're on the verge of insanity but you think your actions sane. And you can't stop. You just can't stop.
Courtney Elizabeth Young
#17. I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!
Charles Simic
#18. Only my complacent Mona crossed the crack with a simple step . . .
She wasn't depressed or angry. In fact, she seemed to verge on laughter. 'He always said he would never take his own advice, because he knew it was worthless.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#19. We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.
Edgar Mitchell
#21. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
Lewis Thomas
#22. Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.
Joe Manchin
#23. Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.
Leonard Peltier
#24. Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models
with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#25. Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne
#26. My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Paul Feig
#27. He was thinking about Edith. She was constantly on the verge of canceling their marriage. She would only commission a few shows at a time, reluctantly, and if he had listened properly, she'd always been telling him that it would all end one day.
Nick Hornby
#28. George Lopez is always on the verge of hilarity. If he could ever think of something funny to say, if he had a funny thought in his mind, he's ready to go.
Andy Kindler
#29. Just as I watch him sit on a beach, on the trembling verge of walking out of his prison, so I watch all of us with the same hopes and dreams. I am always here. I am love.
And I cannot be contained.
Geoff Visgilio
#30. I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
Jeanne Moreau
#31. You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.
Richelle Mead
#32. Aimery's cheek seemed to twitch, as though he was on the verge of laughing, yet his voice remained as smooth as caramel when he spoke.
Marissa Meyer
#33. I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
Mary Roach
#34. You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Glenn Beck
#35. Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
Jodi Picoult
#36. They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute.
Laura Lippman
#37. I was on the verge of quitting ... The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.
Cady McClain
#38. This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
David Rockefeller
#39. The G.O.P. and the conservative establishment in America are on the verge of a reckoning.
JP Bernbach
#40. Twilight fans are literally on the verge of being clinically insane.
Robert Pattinson
#41. I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.
Knut Hamsun
#42. I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting.
Paula McLain
#44. They're making me so weak that I'm on the verge of collapsing to the floor. I've kissed a few boys in the past . . . but Day makes me feel like I've never been kissed before. Like the world has melted away into something unimportant.
Marie Lu
#45. The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
Margaret Atwood
#46. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
David Foster Wallace
#47. Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human ... and we are the people driving that change.
Daniel Keys Moran
#48. And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new
Billy Joel
#49. He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.
Ross Macdonald
#50. While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
Michael K. Simpson
#51. Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
Will Rogers
#52. Eternity! How know we but we stand
On the precipitous and crumbling verge
Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?
Abraham Coles
#53. It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.
Y.S. Lee
#54. I'm teetering on the verge of tears and I feel like such a wuss. Who am I to be crying when all these people just got displaced from their homes? No one. That's who.
Anna Banks
#55. A CHRISTMAS TREE was coming up Eleventh Avenue. Or rather, was trying to come; having tangled itself in a shopping cart someone had abandoned in the crosswalk, it shuddered and bristled and heaved, on the verge of bursting into flame.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#56. I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
Margaret Atwood
#57. It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.
Markus Zusak
#58. Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?
Gregory Maguire
#59. At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold chills through my whole body.
Osamu Dazai
#60. She spoke fast, and seemed to be a combination of stressed out and on the verge of cracking up, which was a mixture I wasn't sure I'd ever seen before.
Morgan Matson
#61. I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?
Bushwick Bill
#62. A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter ... I'm out.
Steven Soderbergh
#63. O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
William Shakespeare
#64. As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
Greg Cootsona
#65. Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.
Archibald Rutledge
#67. He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel ...
James Patterson
#68. I feel on the verge of a great transformation, which may be as simple as becoming interested in other things.
Edward St. Aubyn
#69. I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
Erin Wasson
#70. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.
Conchitina Cruz
#71. Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
Mignon McLaughlin
#72. You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.
Ron Paul
#74. Standing this close to her, he could begin to see the difference. She was still looking down, still acting shy and quiet so that anyone more than three paces away would have no idea what she was saying. But there was a little more excitement in her hands. Her lips twitched, on the verge of smiling.
Courtney Milan
#75. The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.
Alain De Botton
#76. But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won't be like this. Life can be so cruel. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one slice of bread to someone on the verge of starvation.
Marisha Pessl
#77. What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something? You look like we're both on the verge of an enormous joke."
"Katsa, only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke.
Kristin Cashore
#78. We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
Ian Paisley
#79. If my good mood were a raft named Gaby, it seemed like it was on the verge of sinking.
Mariana Zapata
#81. Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
Emily Giffin
#82. A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
Hermann Hesse
#83. There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside.
Brian Chippendale
#84. The guy appeared to be on the verge of tears.
"Zere is no more bread," he confessed tragically, like someone admitting witchcraft to the Inquisition.
Karen Chance
#85. Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.
Nenia Campbell
#86. I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
Bret Easton Ellis
#87. Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
Michel Gondry
#88. If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
Soren Kierkegaard
#89. When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
Mark Twain
#90. To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
George William Norris
#91. Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.
Freya North
#92. When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
Felicity Kendal
#93. It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.
John Hart
#94. I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#95. With you, I'm always on the verge - feeling dizzy like looking at waves - and you, my Love, make me tipsy ...
John Geddes
#96. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe.
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#97. It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time
Samuel Shem
#98. When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming.
Veronica Rossi
#99. I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs
#100. Paris?" she said hazily, and that was when Paris whirled to face the wall again, because she was barely clothed, and now that she wasn't on the verge of dying, that was a lot more embarrassing. And improper. And kind of attractive, which he was really trying not to think about right now.
Rosamund Hodge
