Worn Out Quotes - Page 2

• Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

  William Faulkner

  Air, Long, Sound

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

  Carolyn Meyer

  Our Love, Worn, Faded

  Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

  Kiera Cass

  Princess, Shoes, Red

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.35, HarperCollins

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

  Storm Constantine

  Children, Gone Away, Shining

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• Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

  Charles Kingsley

  Fall, Passion, Sleep

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “New miscellanies”, p.315

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• He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

  Laozi

  Humility, Littles, Succeed

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• The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.

  George Carlin

  Friday, Christian, Monday

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• He didn't want the respect of people who weren’t worth wiping his nose on—people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Shoes, People, Noses

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.265, St. Martin's Griffin

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• How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

  Paul Celan

  Splinters, Lasts, Knots

  Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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• There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

  George Orwell

  People, Phrases, Trouble

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• There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

  Pedro Pascal

  Ideas, Drug, Association

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• In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Thinking, Doubt

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• I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Country, Differences

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

  Mark Doty

  Kissing, Gone, Ease

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• A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Song, Years

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

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• So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Dream, Moving, Tired

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• Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

  Kij Johnson

  Years, Waiting, Months

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• …for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Son, Forgive And Forget

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.998, e-artnow

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• There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

  Martin Heidegger

  Empty, Worn, Remains

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• There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Nice, Cotton, Preppy

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• Nature, they say, doth dote,
  And cannot make a man
  Save on some worn-out plan
  Repeating us by rote:
  For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
  And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
  Of the unexhausted West,
  With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Hero, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back to the dust. We will trade it in for an entirely new heavenly model!

  David Berg

  Dust, Heaven, Body

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• I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Vexation, Insult, Worn

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• Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

  William Feather

  Life, Long, May

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