Trying To Hold Quotes

#1. It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Magic Johnson

#2. They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.

Lillian E. Smith

#3. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.

Chrissy Moon

#4. As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

Rhod Gilbert

#5. I hugged my knees to my chest, desperately trying to hold myself together so I didn't splinter into a thousand pieces. If I let go, no one would ever be able to put the pieces together again.

Cat Clarke

#6. If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.

Heidi Tankersley

#7. Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

Esther Hicks

#8. I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

Waylon Jennings

#9. Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to hold onto the deadness that had blanketed her emotions for the past few days.

Lili Wilkinson

#10. He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

Laini Taylor

#11. Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it.

Ann H. Gabhart

#12. Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going - people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward. After

Haruki Murakami

#13. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it ... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

Suzanne Collins

#14. They say that when men are dying in battle their fingers nearly always twist into the soil, trying to hold on to the earth and all the pain and love it holds. The

Terry Hayes

#15. Aren't those vegetables sexy, Rog?" Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. "Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.

Jennifer Lane

#16. The handless clock trying to hold
the hour of death, salt
in the last mouthful of water.
The windows opaque with silence,
silence stagnating in the wineglass.

Warren Heiti

#17. Hardwick was showing the frustration of a man trying to hold his groceries inside a ripped bag.

John Verdon

#18. Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time to recharge if i am to give from a place of abundance.

Jaeda DeWalt

#19. She's the fire in my veins, the breath in my lungs, and the glue trying to hold each of my scars together.

Nyrae Dawn

#20. Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

Yvon Chouinard

#21. I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

Scott M. Gimple

#22. The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands.

Anthony Doerr

#23. Sages of the past would say we are - all of us - just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

Susan Meissner

#24. The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

Amy Lane

#25. When I cry it's not because of one thing, it's all the built up emotions that I've been trying to hold in for weeks

Tina J. Richardson

#26. Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

Ty Cobb

#27. It's hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn't want you.

Nicola Yoon

#28. She was the miracle I was trying to hold on to.

Molly O'Keefe

#29. People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

Robert Mitchum

#30. She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own

Salman Rushdie

#31. Mrs. Ivanov's gentle face was pale and bewildered, her wrinkles falling in on themselves as though they'd given up trying to hold on to any expression other than sorrow.

Deborah Blake

#32. What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. Trying to hold onto "how it was" will only create suffering and disappointment, because life is a river and everything changes.

Jack Kornfield

#34. In this dream, I wasn't a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote's almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.

Patricia Briggs

#35. It was like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why. I understood more than him, of course, but just barely. I would never fully understand how I could have ever strayed from such a warm, sensitive and caring soul.

S.C. Stephens

#36. When I disconnect from Skype, I can let go of the cheerful face I've been trying to hold for Jess's sake.

Lark O'Neal

#37. What is the blonde doing when she holds her hands tightly over her ears? Trying to hold on to a thought.

Various

#38. She stood in the middle of the room, wringing her hands, trying to hold back the tears and losing the fight. Yes, she had been mad at him. Yes, she had wanted to cause him bodily harm. But she hadn't wanted him killed!

Kristi Ann Hunter

#39. She entered the manor, but couldn't help feeling that she was trying to hold together a carpet as dozens of people pulled out threads from the sides.

Brandon Sanderson

#40. When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

Jenny Han

#41. Caspian sat there with me until my sobs died down to a slow hiccup.
Then he whispered, "I'd hold your hand right now if I could."
His eyes were so wide and earnest that I couldn't help but smile at him.
"Thanks," I said, trying to hold back more tears. "It's the thought that counts.

Jessica Verday

#42. You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Tablo

#43. Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

Jim Harrison

#44. Instead of trying to hold on, to push myself into this force, I let go. And I fall into what I can't explain, into a sensation that is everything and nothing, light and dark, hot and cold, alive and dead. Soon the power is the only thing in my head, blotting out all my ghosts and memories.

Victoria Aveyard

#45. You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy-knows-best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.

Russell Simmons

#46. I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.

Jerrod Carmichael

#47. There was so little difference between a fist that was trying to hold everything in and the fist that was ready to release all its frustration and rage.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#48. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party

Andrew Lansley

#49. A two-week-old ceasefire in the Central African Republic collapsed, as conflict resumed between fighters tied to Muslim and Christian militias. French troops trying to hold the ring were attacked.

Anonymous

#50. Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.

Ally Condie

#51. It wasn't like he was holding me so much as trying to hold onto something.

Augusten Burroughs

#52. I'm already half-dust, Hayley, and I'm tired of trying to hold together what's left.

Katie McGarry

#53. You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.
And then everything falls apart anyway.

David Levithan

#54. They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body.

Akshay Vasu

#55. Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Patricia McCormick

#56. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

Beth Revis

#57. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

Suzanne Collins

#58. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break.

AVA.

#59. Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

John Lee Hooker

#60. Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

Stephen Colbert

#61. I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.

Shaggy

#62. For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

#63. Drizzt, trying to play it calm, trying to hold fast to his principles, could not hide his grimace at the mention of his dead father, reputably the finest weapons master ever to draw swords in Menzoberranzan.

R.A. Salvatore

#64. We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Paulo Coelho

#65. Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Edward James Olmos

#66. Why are they denying it?" Larena laid her head on Fallon's shoulder. "He's denying it. She's just trying to hold herself together in the face of what he's done.

Donna Grant

#67. I only know now that the scientists are wrong.
The world is flat.
I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.

Tahereh Mafi

#68. I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.

Pete Dexter

#69. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

Erin Morgenstern

#70. I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

Lindsay Lohan

#71. We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.

Michael A. Singer

#72. Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Mark Twain

#73. Understanding faith can be like trying to hold onto jello. Just when you think you've got a handful of the stuff, all you really have is the residue all over your sticky hands.

Jennifer L. Lane

#74. Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends.

Courtney Summers

#75. Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.

Joel Osteen

#76. People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward

Haruki Murakami

#77. This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#78. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

#79. Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

Mary Stewart

#80. Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Anne-Marie Duff

#81. Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?

Daniel J. Rice

#82. The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation ... , the more elusive it becomes ... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

Alan Watts

#83. You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team.

Jose Bautista

#84. We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

Mary Martin

#85. Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.

Keri Russell

#86. 'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'

Mike Gayle

#87. How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?

Shane Koyczan

#88. The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Frank Herbert

#89. It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

Lee L Jampolsky

#90. I've been trying not to be a big baby by insisting on holding his hand in front of the angels, but the urge is strong. I don't want to embarrass him even when he's unconscious. But now that the others are gone, I sit beside him and hold his hand. It's warm, and I pull it to my chest to warm me up.

Susan Ee

#91. The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Ronald Reagan

#92. I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

Mac DeMarco

#93. People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Bruce Lee

#94. I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.

Richard Ford

#95. I don't care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

Hayley Williams

#96. When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

Jared Harris

#97. I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.

Lee Daniels

#98. My today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

Gilbert Ryle

#99. It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

Tommy Shaw

#100. The future is a cold mistress. You can give all your life looking to her and trying to catch hold of her but she'll always dance away from your fingertips and laugh back at you from the distance. Them that say they know are liars and thieves.

Donal Ryan