Top 12 Rising Tension Quotes

#1. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Ashly Lorenzana

#2. Time can but make her beauty over again.

William Butler Yeats

#3. A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

Larry Watson

#4. She lost herself in the kiss, moving her body against his, her excitement rising, the tension inside her spinning tighter and tighter.

Lynn Raye Harris

#5. The way he's watching me makes me feel needed like no one's ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.

Colleen Hoover

#6. I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.

Emil Cioran

#7. Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for what could not be had outside theoretical physics: time reversal.

Ian McEwan

#8. [Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

John Shelby Spong

#9. In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Susan Orlean

#10. I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.

Reggie Watts

#11. Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

Angie Thomas

#12. I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

Frida Giannini

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