Top 59 Quotes About Thud
#1. I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.
Ron Wood
#2. One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
John Barrow
#3. Down the hall I could hear the thud of basketballs, the blare of the time-out horn, and the shouts of the crowd as the sports-beasts fought: Lisbon Greyhounds versus Jay Tigers.
Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?
Stephen King
#4. Slowly, elaborately, Akon's head dropped to the table with a dull thud. Why couldn't we have been alone in the universe?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#5. You are that moment before falling, the falling,
a whir of falling, a wail of falling, the sweet
thud.
Sandra Beasley
#6. Kate had the shape of a pixie, all noodle arms and legs; and when she bent to the ground and kicked up her feet, it looked as delicate as a spider walking a wall. Me, I sort of defied gravity with a thud.
Jodi Picoult
#7. Her mother's last words rang in her head. Louder than the screams and shouts from outside the dropship. Louder than all the alarms. Louder than the frantic thud of Glass's broken heart.
Kass Morgan
#8. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#9. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.
Leslye Walton
#10. Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
Fritz Kreisler
#11. But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.
Marya Hornbacher
#12. If the scrapes were on the front of our knees, she would put our dirty feet in the middle of her chest to clean the wounds, and we could feel her heart beating, strong as the thud of the ground when we walked, through our soles.
Jesmyn Ward
#13. Jessica felt her heart thud back down to its proper location. She managed to murmur, "Never going to happen," in a casually teasing voice and started
Noelle Adams
#14. Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
Rahm Emanuel
#15. The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.
William Hope Hodgson
#16. He gave me an appealing look, which fell with a thud between us:
Ross Macdonald
#17. Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.
Jessie Cave
#18. Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.
Martha Manning
#19. He sunk the shovel into the cold earth with a satisfying thud.
V.E Schwab
#22. The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.
Dean Koontz
#23. Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
Jeanne DuPrau
#24. I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset ... almost pays for the thud.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#26. Is it possible
for a heart to be exhausted?
Can it still be worn
when locked tight
in its cage?
My heart's beat
is a drum too loose,
a dull thud
where it once
was triumphant.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#27. The churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words
Samuel Beckett
#28. A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.
Gary Corby
#30. The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.
Douglas Adams
#31. Spar felt a tiny thud on the back of his shin, as if a moth had butted against him on its flight through the night air. Wait, had that been the small human? Had she kicked him? He could not tell by glancing at her face.
Christine Warren
#32. There was a click. There was a noise like a partridge. There was a thud.
There was silence.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
Billy Beane
#34. You are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side.
"Wow. You must be tense a lot."
He sighed. "You have no idea.
Seanan McGuire
#35. He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.
Eric Spitznagel
#36. I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
James Herriot
#37. The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.
Steven Erikson
#38. Did you hear how his head bounced down the steps? Thud, splat, thud, splat.
Nalini Singh
#39. No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.
Erik Larson
#40. It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.
Bailey White
#41. could feel the thud of his heartbeat in my ear as it echoed through the bones of his chest. Its quick, steady pounding soothed
Celina Grace
#43. But the war outside refused to be ignored for long. Antiaircraft guns rattled. Shrapnel skittered like claws across the roof. The bombs drew closer until their reports were followed by lower, more ominous sounds - the dull thud of walls collapsing.
Ransom Riggs
#44. He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed.
Kristen Ashley
#45. His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.
Sophie Jordan
#46. we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush.
i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine
Tyehimba Jess
#47. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#48. Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.
Tess Gerritsen
#49. When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat.
David Adams Richards
#50. in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud. Of
Amor Towles
#51. Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.
Bruce Springsteen
#52. THUD.
Thud.
Thud.
The shovel hit wood, and stuck.
V.E Schwab
#53. The rich rock-star Lothario bullshit drops with a thud, and an air of truth fills the empty space between us. He pins me with those gorgeous emerald eyes. "I dig you, Letty.
Kendall Grey
#54. slam onto the dusty prairie with a back-popping thud, my blade flying from my hands and vanishing into the thigh-high grass nearby.
Sara Raasch
#55. It seemed as if Gisela's screams were growing closer. The brutal kicking stopped. He heard a loud thud and several startled yells. He forced his eyes open. Gisela was on top of Ruexner on the ground, pummeling his head with her fists, while Ruexner held his arms up to protect his face.
Melanie Dickerson
#56. If you think Thanksgiving has been fun, just wait until Christmas."...
The doors slammed shut with a muffled thud, and all he could think about was the revenge she could be planning. He'd never looked forward to anything more in his life. "Game on.
Sara Humphreys
#57. He said, "How can the inconsequence of your life not shame you?"
He said, "How do you not feel empty?"
I do, she thought as she pushed through the library doors and let them thud behind her. I do.
Marie Rutkoski
#58. Thud, thud, thud, riderless black horse with red eyes coming down the halls of his mind, ironshod hooves digging up soft gray clods of brain tissue, leaving hoofprints to fill up with mystic crescents of blood.
Stephen King
#59. A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway.
* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.
Terry Pratchett
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