H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He . . . felt as if, wanting to be needed by everyone, he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.”
“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust
“He felt ashamed of himself, of course, but the warmth of that shame pooled in his crotch, amplifying his pleasure.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“He felt at home with his interspecies dinner guests, much more than he did on shore, where he felt the societal expectations of work, money, fame, and the calculus of a ticking clock.”
“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.”
Source: Jaws
“He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships.”
Source: Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
“He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.”
“He felt electricity flow through his veins, his arms, his eyes.”
Source: The Conjurer
“He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.”
“He felt every day more and more certain that she, and she alone, could make him happy.”
Source: Wives and Daughters
“He felt fixated at some point of time where all truths were only temporary. Panic lay beneath his actions, he realized. Panic centered not on the possibility that Chani might die, but that Paul should come to him afterward filled with grief--his loved one, gone. Gone. Something cannot emerged from nothing, the ghola told himself. From what does this panic emerge?”
Source: Dune Messiah
“He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.”
“He felt gladness roar through his soul.”
Source: Misery
“He felt good lots of days. Trouble was, on the bad days, that was hard to remember. At those times, for some reason, he felt like he had always been in that darkness, and always would be.”
Source: Oathbringer
“He felt good today, though. Rubbable. He might even go so far as to say hopeful. Whether that was simply insistent optimism or false hope, he would take what he could. I’m only storing up karmic liabilities, he mused to himself musingly.”
Source: Dysfunction
“He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.”
Source: The Rainbow
“He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to.”
Source: The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales
“He felt her body tremble as her slender hands pressed down on his shoulders. Closing her eyes, her perfect, full lips whispered his name as if she were in prayer. He closed his own eyes, taking in his fill. She was the nectar that he had longed for all this time. She was sweet tea...and he knew that this was all he would ever need for the rest of his life.”
“He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.”
“He felt her mind reaching into shadows, scanning the nightfall for danger.
He leaned back in the air and released his body, then blended into the darkness beneath the low-hanging branches of a tree. "I'm your only danger now," he whispered.”
Source: The Sacrifice
“He felt her there beside him, just as she had always been on evenings like this when he had called for music, and when her touch on her instrument, or her least word to him, had been so much her own; except that he would have preferred even to this vivid dream her simple reality in the dark.”
Source: The Tale of Genji
“He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze --”
Source: Autobiography of Red
“He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
“He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer. Old battered man loafing at the doors of public-houses now seemed to be his fellows, and he felt, as he supposed them to feel, a mingling of envy and hatred towards those who passed quickly and certainly to a goal of their own. They, too, saw things very thin and shadowy, and were wafted about by the lightest breath of wind. For the substantial world, with its prospect of avenues leading on and on to the invisible distance, had slipped from him.”
“He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?”
“He felt his heart roll, exposing its underbelly. Nothing he could do about that. He was equipped to eliminate threats, protect and serve. Not to love. Never to love.”
“He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.”
“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”
“He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.”
“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“He felt indestructible because destroyed.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“He felt it coming. He needed to be more to this woman than just the guy who showed up begging her to sing his songs. He...
He had no time to make a move before she came across the cab and planted her lips against his.”
Source: Love Songs
“He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.”
Source: How To Save A Life
“He felt it would hardly delight his fiancee should he reveal his true opinion, which was that his future mother-in-law's profile had struck him as so alarming that he would prefer in future to view only its muted reflection, perhaps on the surface of a tea tray.”
“He felt jealous, insecure, horny, and as happy as he'd ever been all at the same time.”
Source: Serving the Cuckoldress Next Door
“He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.”
Source: The Lost Hero
“He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.”
Source: The Wonder of Ordinary Magic
“He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...”
Source: Infected Connection
“He felt like a character in a book. He thought of Mary Lennox as she discovered her secret garden.
The blackberry bushes had become too thick to ride through and Percy dismounted, leaving Prince beneath the shade of a thick-trunked oak tree. He chose a strong whip of wood and started carving his way through the knotted vines. He was no longer a boy whose legs didn't always do as he wished; he was Sir Gawain on the lookout for the Green Knight, Lord Byron on his way to fight a duel, Beowulf leading an army upon Grendel. So keen was his focus on his swordplay that he didn't realize at first that he'd emerged from the forested area and was standing now on what must have been the top of a gravel driveway.
Looming above him was not so much a house as a castle. Two enormous floors, with mammoth rectangular windows along each face and an elaborate stone balustrade of Corinthian columns running around all four sides of its flat roof. He thought at once of Pemberley, and half expected to see Mr. Darcy come striding through the big double doors, riding crop tucked beneath his arm as he jogged down the stone steps that widened in an elegant sweep as they reached the turning circle where he stood.”
Source: Homecoming
“He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.”
Source: The Waste Lands
“He felt like a damn Thanksgiving feast, sprawled there on the bed while she ate him up with her smoldering gaze. He could tell she like everything she saw, especially when her fingers circled his erection and she let out a soft sigh.
"This really isn't fair," he choked out. "I was trying to be a gentleman, and you've ruined everything.”
Source: Midnight Alias
“He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320”
“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”
“He felt like a pilgrim standing on the shores of Lake Sahara, having walked barefoot over hundreds of miles, yet all the hardships forgotten, filled with only wonder and reverence at the marvel of it all.”
Source: Tempting the Bride