Top 100 Violently Quotes
#1. I could not fall back in love with Chase Jennings. Doing so was like falling in love with a thunderstorm. Exciting and powerful, yes. Even beautiful. But violently tempered, unpredictable, and ultimately short-lived.
Kristen Simmons
#2. The worst plan executed quickly and violently is better than the best plan not executed at all.
David VanDyke
#3. In the past, I thought I should put serious effort into being less materially attached, to train myself to like expensive things less. Now it was happening organically and almost violently, with full conviction.
Charlotte Shane
#4. Now for me, music is indeed a spiritual experience. It may be hypnotizing or violently stimulating. I listen to and appreciate all kinds of music, from folk, to jazz, to classical, to hard core rock.
Robert M. Price
#5. And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.
Stephen Fry
#6. Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.
Jan Tschichold
#8. I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
Rebecca Solnit
#9. One 'is' a genius only in the sense that one 'is' a syphilitic, in the sense that 'one' is violently problematized by a ferocious exteriority. One returns to the subject of which genius has been predicated to find it charred and devastated beyond recognition.
Nick Land
#10. Seasickness ... is caused ... by the disturbance ... to the inner ear " he said. " You just need ... to ... look ... at ... the horizon ... " His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.
Kate Forsyth
#11. Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
D.J. Taylor
#12. I find violently left-wing people just as irritating and self-righteous as right-wing types.
Stefan Mohamed
#13. I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
P.G. Wodehouse
#15. A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.
Elaine Dundy
#16. You're exactly right, Aizen. My blade is full of hate. I didn't come here to fight you. I came here to violently hack you to pieces.
Tite Kubo
#17. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.
Peace Pilgrim
#18. Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb
Jeanette Winterson
#19. Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.
Umberto Eco
#20. The subject, a widely known architect with leanings toward theosophy and occultism, went violently insane on the date of young Wilcox's seizure, and expired several months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some escaped denizen of hell.
H.P. Lovecraft
#21. Jezebel the nun, who violently knits ...
Bob Dylan
#22. I cried and bit my fingers and drank wine I snuck from the Clairmont pantry. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting. I
E. Lockhart
#23. No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
Vladimir Putin
#24. I was starting to fall in love with Michael Boutilier. Quickly, violently. It was a love that was both armed and dangerous, a ticking time-bomb of destruction that threatened to send my whole world up in flames
and it felt good.
Nenia Campbell
#25. One thing about living in South Florida is that everywhere you go is violently air-conditioned,
Katie Cotugno
#26. Arthur Schopenhauer: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident
Anonymous
#27. Being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
John Banville
#28. I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.
Kate Johnson
#29. When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.
Vishwas Chavan
#30. Raffe's legs tremble violently and he's losing consciousness, but he stays up out of sheer stubbornness and fury.
Susan Ee
#31. It was her clothes that did it...they clashed violently with the buff distemper of the walls.
Norman Collins
#32. I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
L. Ron Hubbard
#33. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.
Charles Dickens
#34. That wildness, that untamed fierceness ... They weren't born of a free heart, but of one that had known despair so complete that living brightly, living violently, was the only way to outrun it.
Sarah J. Maas
#35. Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ...
H.L. Mencken
#36. I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a brief infatuation with someone unattainable' and 'to be violently squashed.
Elna Baker
#37. There's nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity.
Aaron B. Powell
#38. The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.
Mimi Kennedy
#40. My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.
Dash Mihok
#41. An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.
Bruno Schulz
#42. People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
Allen Drury
#43. Are terrorists going to be deterred
are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.
Howard Zinn
#44. Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
Monique Wittig
#45. Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
Paul David Washer
#46. No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.
Simon R. Green
#47. Unlike the bough that
shook off her dead leaves violently
like a wet terrier,
unlike the beating of the butterfly,
her wings, against the cocoon,
some dreams never made a move.
V.S. Atbay
#48. We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church is not to assume a defensive posture, but may take aggressive action to overcome evil by means of good.
Jay E. Adams
#49. I think I would scream too if someone violently jammed a big ass breast in my mouth.
Cassi Clark
#50. The ground under their feet rolled violently as if a giant snake was pushing through.
A.O. Peart
#51. Things keep coming around and around in this world, it's all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.
Banana Yoshimoto
#52. Maybe we'll have more fun this summer but this particular fun is over. I want it to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally
that's why I gave this party.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#53. You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.
Sylvia Day
#54. There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
#55. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.
James K. Hoffmeier
#56. But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment.
Jane Austen
#57. Probably the most violently hated of the weenie songs cited in the survey was "Sometimes When We Touch," sung in a very emotional manner by Dan Hill, who sounds as though he's having his prostate examined by Captain Hook.
Dave Barry
#58. To move violently and beautifully through skin, to enter matter-isn't that evolution's climax?
Lidia Yuknavitch
#59. You're having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old.
Liane Moriarty
#60. Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
Joseph Addison
#61. How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
Philip Sidney
#62. For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.
Bruno Of Cologne
#63. Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
Mary Astell
#64. That's why we're separated,'I said. 'It's not money, it's feeling- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently.
S.E. Hinton
#65. Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.
J.K. Rowling
#66. I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
Robert M. Gates
#67. The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks ... Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.
Tim Dorsey
#68. I could love means I could die violently, or live violently; the threat of the arrow is everywhere at once, not just in the heart.
Karen Green
#69. As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
Patrick White
#70. I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
Joseph Heller
#71. I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
Adam Driver
#72. if god is real, she put all of herself into this girl. she vowed to unleash a woman so violently herself, the sky would collapse every time she came to orgasm.
Taylor Rhodes
#73. Maybe they want us to feel uneasy. Maybe they think we'll make a mistake if they're constantly breathing down our necks.' I shivered violently, as if I really could feel the hot, hungry breath of evil intentions panting just behind me.
Rosie Pugh
#74. This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
Mark Rothko
#75. I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.
Denis Healey
#76. Her eyes were an intense, electrical blue, and didn't so much meet as violently earth themselves in one's own. It was something of a relief when she blinked.
Paul Murray
#77. Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle.
Lee Child
#78. She loved details, and the world, and inevitably became lost in both. Violently beautiful sunsets could reduce her to tears. She was virtually incapacitated by fireflies.
Emily St. John Mandel
#79. The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
Joe Haldeman
#81. Jace stood up, knocking his chair back violently. You are not taking Clary to the Seelie Court without me and THAT is FINAL.
Cassandra Clare
#82. Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
T. S. Eliot
#83. I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
Balthus
#84. They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.
China Mieville
#85. When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time
Dean Cavanagh
#86. And in the morning
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#87. On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.
Cuthbert Soup
#88. I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.
Andre Breton
#89. Violently back and forth? The truth was she couldn't remember a time ... but she was dismally afraid she would before much longer. He rented the ground-floor apartment before me. We saw each other, me coming and him going, over a space of a few days. He moved down to Roward Lane. Do you know it?
Stephen King
#90. Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.
Eric Hoffer
#91. Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#92. When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway.
Milan Kundera
#93. The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
H.L. Mencken
#94. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting.
E. Lockhart
#95. I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.
Kevin Hearne
#96. In the morning you were never violently sorry
you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. I'm an engineer," Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. "Did eight years on Tycho Station! I'm not going to get used like a fucking technician.
James S.A. Corey
#98. People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Alexei Sayle
#99. Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
Dave Barry
#100. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
David C. Coates
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