Swollen Quotes

• If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

  Chris Cleave

  Men, Faces, Your Face

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  Mao Zedong

  Glitter, Legs, Tongue

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• Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

  Holly Black

  Beautiful, Strange, Possibility

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Francis Bacon

  Light, Rivers, Fame

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Praise'

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• The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hard Work, Garden, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Air, Mouths

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Eye, Fiction, Red

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• What would people look like
  if we could see them as they are,
  soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
  reckless, pinned against time?

  Ellen Bass

  People, Looks, Honey

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• Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

  Julie Andrews

  Grateful, Hard Work, Be Grateful

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Self, Wings, Heaven

  Christopher Marlowe (2005). “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, p.49, Routledge

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• Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

  Sandra Cisneros

  Doors, Bricks, Crumbling

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.26, Vintage

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• I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, War, Black

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  Sophocles

  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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• what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

  William S. Burroughs

  Spiritual, Hate, Stupid

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• His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Dark, Blue

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

  Alice Munro

  Men, Absurd, Feels

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 18, 2010

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• How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Sight, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 532, 1895.

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• Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.

  Ketzel Levine

  Beauty, Education, Real

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• This path belongs to those who are not cold, whose hearts have not become stone, and whose heads have not become so swollen that they can't hear the voice of the soul. This path will belong to those who, with all their strengths and weaknesses, will still serve others.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Heart, Voice, Soul

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• Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Stronger, Progress

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• Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.

  Allan Fromme

  Jobs, Loneliness, Cities

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right Wing Women”, Perigee Trade

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• My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Spring, Garden

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.66, Penguin

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• If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Men

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma,
  Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen.
  Question mark, you pregnant?
  Oh you're not? I love you, period.

  Chino XL

  Karma, Rap, Love You

  Song: Wordsmith

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