Punch In The Gut Quotes

#1. Home, he murmured. It's always the hardest to leave ... because it gives you the biggest punch in the gut as you're on your way off. All the memories come flooding in ... and you're left with a feeling of emptiness. You're homesick before you're even gone.

Zechariah Barrett

#2. Seeing someone you used to date is a lot like watching highlights of your favorite team losing in the Super Bowl: just the sight of it hits you like a punch in the gut and makes you remember how upset you were when it all went down in flames.

Justin Halpern

#3. Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.

Jesse Kellerman

#4. I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Michelle Forbes

#5. I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

Banks

#6. The stupid boy has the nerve to laugh. I sit up and punch him in the gut. Stupid boy ain't laughing now. Now he's too busy grunting in pain.

April Brookshire

#7. I like to make the odd impromptu visit. It keeps management on their toes, wives in their place. You know. He shrugs, his mouth set in an arrogant line.

E.L. James

#8. We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

John Green

#9. Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn't get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you'd be flat on your back again.

Brenda Rothert

#10. There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.

Jeff Ross

#11. Seeing him again had been a gut punch.

Tan Redding

#12. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

Matt Haig

#13. I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.

Ian Kinsler

#14. Loss will gut-punch you no matter the age of the deceased. It drops you to your knees. It shatters the dreams of your families...It brings tears, anger, shock and a rejection of faith--or the complete opposite: a reliance on faith. It creates the walking wounded.

Mary Jedlicka Humston

#15. Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

Anonymous

#16. The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

Cobi Jones

#17. Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he'd loved her. And then when he'd stopped, it wasn't really his fault.

Sarina Bowen

#18. Life works in mysterious ways, Ember, and the secret is to not think too hard on the why or how of it, and to not mourn what is no longer, but live: live hard and love hard.

L.A. Fiore

#19. A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Zoe Saldana

#20. She bellowed the last word with such soul-deep hatred that he felt it like a punch to the gut.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

Tayari Jones

#22. 'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.

Lew Temple

#23. Dodgy bastard," one of the twins spat. A trickle of blood from his temple made it hard to tell which one. "Shite for brains," the other replied, reversing their positions and landing a punch to the gut. "We're twins. If I'm a bastard, you're one too.

Tessa Dare

#24. Every morning and evening, Livia granted her eyes the only thing they asked for all day: a sweeping, hopeful look at the platform. And every time, her gut registered the punch of his absence.

Debra Anastasia

#25. And," Mae added, voice prim, "if you try to brag about this, no one's going to believe you. No one will believe someone like me would sleep with someone like you." That was the gut punch. It was also the last word, because he couldn't muster another response.

Richelle Mead

#26. Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

A.R. Ammons

#27. I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

Steve Coogan

#28. I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister,' said he, as he joined her.
'You certainly do,' she replied with a smile; 'but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.

Jane Austen

#29. I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

Dalai Lama

#30. Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#31. I feel like I'm a trendsetter. I try to always stay on the edge of everything I do, whether it be music, fashion, film. I just like to stay abreast of what's going on. What's going on in the street and what's going on in the hood I put in my music and I feel like a lot of people follow that.

Gucci Mane

#32. Let go," I demand. "No." My eyebrows snap together. "Why not?" "Because your gut reaction is always to punch, and I don't like being tickled." Tickled? Tickled! Indignation swamps me. I'll show him a tickle.

Amanda Bouchet

#33. When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

K.P. Yohannan