Stomach Quotes - Page 11

• Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

  Ann Aguirre

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.40, Penguin

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• Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Body, Soup

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Children, Hate, Feet

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.62, Penguin

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• Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Next Day, Feelings

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Moving, Fall

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• Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me.

  Dave Pelzer

  Children, Hate, Play

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.133, Health Communications, Inc.

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• This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

  P. C. Cast

  Breathing, Feelings, Intense

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.122, Macmillan

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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Roots, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Believe, Fiction, World

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.73, Macmillan

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• luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.

  David Levithan

  Phones, Class, Doe

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.111, Penguin

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• I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.

  Susane Colasanti

  Nerves, Excited, Mess

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• Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Knitting, Upset Stomach

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• I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

  Sylvia Plath

  Powerful, Drinking, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.8, Hamilton Books

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• Ronnie James Dio died the other day, quietly succumbed to a relatively sudden onset of stomach cancer and up and left the planet in a blaze of stage fire, dragonsmoke and general metal awesomeness. Maybe you heard.

  Mark Morford

  Cancer, Fire, Dio

  "All kneel before the devil horns". www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Blue, Sky

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.351, First Avenue Editions

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• Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Sweet, May, Littles

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service...my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Hunting, Hands, People

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• You're crying?" he said. "No, I- " I tore my gaze away. "Just dust. From the path. Simon's that way." I tried to pass him, but he stooped, trying to get a loom of my face. When I wouldn't let him, he caught my chin. I jerked back, flinching at his touch, heart thudding at it, too. I told myself Simon was wrong. I'd never be dumb enough to fall for Derek. But I had. With him so close, my stomach kept doing weird flips. It wasn't fear. It hadn't been fear for awhile. "You have been crying," he said, voice softer.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Heart, Dust

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• To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

  Jack London

  Sunshine, Self, Expression

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• She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

  James Patterson

  Flirting, Together, Teeth

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.149, Random House

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• You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Memories, Trying, Littles

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• When Liam stepped forward again, Derek's arm shot around me , a growl vibrating up from his stomach. Liam put his hand out toward me. When Derek tensed he pilled back, then did it again, testing his reaction, laughing when he got one, untill even Ramone started to laugh. "Check this out," Liam said. "I think the pup's got himself a mate. Isn't that the cutest thing?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Hands, Laughing

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• Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Jelly, Sandwiches, Bread

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• Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.

  Rachel Cohn

  Oxygen, People, Police

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

  Jules Verne

  Justice, Boards, Dinner

  Jules Verne (1965). “Journey to the centre of the earth”, Penguin Group USA

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