Top 100 On The Verge Quotes
#1. If you feel empty, you are right on the verge of God's greatest blessing. Just seek His face. Should you be desperate and hurting and experiencing loss, remember that the Lord lifts up the downcast and casts down the proud. He will in His own good time turn your mourning into joy.
Timothy E. Crosby
#2. It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
Fran Lebowitz
#3. America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
Vladimir Lenin
#5. The man who is too captious, walks in the shadow of death, and on the verge of his sepulchre.
Joseph Hamilton
#6. I'm always on the verge of death in my head.
Howie Mandel
#7. The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide,lost in a forest remote from all human habitation
Franz Kafka
#8. So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.
Helena Christensen
#9. There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
Jorge Luis Borges
#10. You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy.
Debasish Mridha
#11. I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.
John Grisham
#12. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller
#13. You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.
Johnny Depp
#14. We're on the verge of all things new.
Billy Joel
#15. All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer
#16. She was on the verge of losing when a white smoke shot up from the pile. With no wind to disperse it, the smoke became an unbroken thread rising straight towards the sky. The pile must have caught fire somewhere, but still there was no sign of flames.
Haruki Murakami
#17. Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
William Kunstler
#18. A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William Broad
#19. I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
Mark Twain
#20. The embodiment of his mystic precepts, he appeared at any given moment to be on the verge of an amazing disintegration, his particular complex of atoms ready to go shooting off into the great void like a burst of fireworks.
Thomas Ligotti
#21. You did not just say that. I have the feeling were on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other." -Christian
"I already have a nickname for you, but I'll get n trouble if I say it in class." - Rose
Richelle Mead
#22. On the verge of a decision we all tremble: hope pauses with fluttering wings.
George Eliot
#23. Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
Ned Vizzini
#24. The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
Paul Sarbanes
#25. I was on the verge of ruin but well-compensated by the miracle of still being alive at my age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#26. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis ...
David Rockefeller
#27. Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.
John Updike
#28. Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.
Douglas Brinkley
#29. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.
Sue Monk Kidd
#30. ...we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#31. It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Markus Zusak
#32. Academic envelope serves only to protect everything the story says and does not say, an inner afflatus always on the verge of being dispersed at contact with the air, the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions. Torn
Italo Calvino
#33. What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#34. We are all hurting and missing people. Everyone is scared, so you can't talk about your worries because worries are everywhere. 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.
You just don't.
Veronica Rossi
#35. At that moment Fr. Sophrony was preparing tea for Fr. Vladimir, and he replied, 'Stay on the verge of despair, but when you see that you are going to fall over, draw back and have a cup of tea.' And he handed him some tea.
Archimandrite Zacharias
#36. We shall lie down," Lincoln warned, "pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free; and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State." Lincoln
Eric Foner
#37. Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.
James T. Farrell
#39. Erik choked back the insult he'd been on the verge of uttering. Judging by his expression, it was viler than a castor-oil purgative.
Juan Filloy
#40. Typically, we see an upsurge in anti-abortion violence ... when the anti-abortion movement kind of thinks it was on the verge of victory, and then finds itself somehow thwarted ... When there's frustration among the anti-abortion forces, violence often results.
Michelle Goldberg
#41. I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.
Kate Atkinson
#42. I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word orange."
"Oxygen deprivation," said Foaly. "Or maybe it's just him.
Eoin Colfer
#43. The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
Eugene Kennedy
#44. Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot.
Mark Frost
#45. The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#46. Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes
Rue
#47. I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
Jonathan Ames
#48. Clover was on the verge of tears but fought hard to keep them back. Never let them see you cry. Any sign of weakness put them into a feeding frenzy.
Shaunta Grimes
#49. I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.
Wayne Koestenbaum
#50. Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
Henry A. Kissinger
#51. When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
Ted Turner
#52. Henry. Please." I was on the verge of tears. "What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Don't you understand what's going on?" He stood up, dusted his hands on his trousers.
Donna Tartt
#53. Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.
Dana Cowin
#54. Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
Kate Forsyth
#55. The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter
like versions of myself I was on the verge
of becoming; and ten years on
and ten blocks down I still can't tell
whether this dispersal resembles
a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.
Rachel Wetzsteon
#56. Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity ... edit one more time!
C.K. Webb
#57. I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.
Stacey Lee
#58. -just on the verge of
becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd
reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom
of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.
V.C. Andrews
#60. A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.
Michael Silverblatt
#61. Being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen really suck.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#62. Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, "Why? Why do you trust me?"
The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, "You are a man who knows the value of beauty."
Stephen R. Donaldson
#63. If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.
H.L. Mencken
#64. Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.
Paulo Coelho
#65. I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.
Rabindranath Tagore
#66. Every boy carries a variation on hanging himself in the backyard branches in the rain. At least the one I saw did. I love nobody. I feel I am on the verge of loving everybody. Then I step outside my room. And he is waiting there.
Richard Powers
#67. The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.
Frederick Lenz
#68. There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.
Suzanne Collins
#69. How difficult it is to advance at one's own internal rhythm when one is constantly fighting against the inertia of the material world. Everything is always on the verge of stopping.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#70. We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Gary Johnson
#71. When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
Thomas Mars
#72. Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.
Rollo May
#73. The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the sleep of a good man.
Victor Hugo
#74. Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
Victor Hugo
#75. As I was sipping the hot liquid, I realized that I had developed a kind of liking for this little man on the verge of death.
Haruki Murakami
#76. Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."
David Quammen
#77. When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)
Pema Chodron
#78. Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
Thorsten Heins
#79. When people devote themselves to something
they always ruin it on the verge of success.
Finish with the same care you took in beginning
and you'll avoid ruining things.
Lao-Tzu
#80. Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.
Howard Carter
#81. The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.
Martin Winterkorn
#82. Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
Geraldine Jewsbury
#83. Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
Julius Lester
#84. Filming 'Doctor Who' is so incredibly different to 'Spooks.' Near to the surface, there's quite a silly atmosphere. A lot of the times, you're on the verge of giggles because it's so over the top.
Miranda Raison
#85. My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.
C.S.E. Cooney
#86. I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
Francoise Sagan
#87. If you ever want to feel like you're on the verge of total, abject bowel-releasing terror, try making your way a klick or two out of a forest, at night, with the certain feeling you're being hunted. It makes you feel alive, it really does, but not in a way you want to feel alive.
John Scalzi
#88. William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.
D.H. Lawrence
#89. In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Bertrand Russell
#90. Poor Nate was always on the verge of saying how he really felt, but he didn't want to make a scene or say something he might regret later. Instead, he kept quiet and let other people steer the boat, while he laid back and enjoyed the steady rocking of the waves.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#91. You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.
George Whitefield
#92. Patrick shakes his head and we're both on the verge of tears then, like we've finally destroyed each other, finally eaten each other alive. We're never coming back from this; I know it. Both of us have finally gone too far.
Katie Cotugno
#93. Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.
Sue Monk Kidd
#94. When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.
Patricia Briggs
#95. When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.
Tony Robbins
#96. -You are on the verge of being truly mad.
-No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
Anne Rice
#97. Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
Jodi Picoult
#98. Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.
Hunter S. Thompson
#99. Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich
#100. Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
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