Crushed Quotes

“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“She regards me the same way I would a cat – like I’m distasteful, occasionally entertaining, and not to be trusted not to pee on the rug. Which is completely unfair – I only thought about it once.”
― Eliza Crewe, Crushed

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and make sense of my life. I harbored the hope, I'm now embarrassed to admit, that like a girl in a Lifetime movie, I would look into someone's eyes and find a reflection of my inner life. But sometime between my teenage years and the first years in New York, that idea had pretty well evaporated. I'd grown up.”
― Diane Meier, The Season of Second Chances

“Social constantly exerts pressure on individuals to conform to the moral code of conduct and the individual always tries to free himself from the shackles of morality. Astrong person redefines the morality of society while a weak person is crushed by the society’s moral pressure.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“(...) we would be crushed and no one would ever know, wild-flowers pressed between the pages of a book and forgotten.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1. ”
― Sumit Ð choudhary c2

“The boot hasn't crushed the roach.Not yet.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Was there a point at which your ego was crushed so completely that it died, and you no longer had to lug around the burden of yourself?”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“It is when I have come to the point that I can do little but crawl that God calls me to fly. And collapsing at the seemingly cruel idea of such an impossible notion, I nonetheless raise a trembling hand and suddenly find myself soaring on wings I thought not to exist. And since that moment, I’ve never stopped believing in wings but I have stopped believing in crawling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You see, it doesn't matter what it takes to have something lovely and wild; it doesn't even matter that you've crushed it into something ordinary, so long as it's under your boot where it belongs...”
― Allie Ray, Inheritance

“Mine is not to judge your actions. However, that does not mean that my heart is not crushed by my inability to save you from the consequences of those actions.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Circumstances crushed hopes
and new hopes rose
from the ashes
of the burned desires.
Her incredible Hulk - hopes
then never let any glass ceiling
go without smashes.”
― Spriha Kant