Wrenchingly Quotes

#1. Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

#2. I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

Barry Mann

#3. I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

Aisha Tyler

#4. The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Hamid Karzai

#5. Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Mary McCarthy

#6. Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart with it off into the abyss.

Gustave Flaubert

#7. Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

William Goldman

#8. Nobody believes in anything without an inner feeling that it can be realized. This is the only source of dreamlike powers

Peter Altenberg

#9. My instinct is to be very controlling.

Gary Kemp

#10. To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Pearl Bailey

#11. In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.

Harshit Walia

#12. April days in Henrietta were quite often fair, tender things, coaxing sleeping trees to bud and love-mad ladybugs to beat against windowpanes.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

Ilchi Lee

#14. I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

Peter Jacobsen

#15. Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

PJ Harvey