H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He felt like a shard from a broken vase; forever cut off from the shape he could have been a part of, unable to find his place in the great puzzle, his edges dangerously sharp.”
Source: The Colours We See
“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“He felt like every cell in his body was alive with independent consciousness.”
Source: Dreck
“He felt like he was here to fight for everyone, but for himself most of all, because he needed to live in a world that was more equitable. A world that took care of the sick and protected the weak while it also gave free rein to those who innovated and made the world richer, more connected, more plentiful for everyone. Those things were not separate, not mutually exclusive, and they needed to be tied back together in the consciousness of our nation, and the world, not just California. But like in everything else, California was as good a place as any to start something.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“He felt like he was running on slicksand, and getting nowhere. He had a sinking feeling that he would not be fast enough before the killer struck again.”
Source: The 7th Pre-Light
“He felt like home.”
Source: When A Mullo Loves A Woman
“He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“He felt like sin but tasted like love so what's a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious crazy love.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“He felt like sin but tasted like love so, what’s a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious rapturous love.”
Source: Vine: Book of Poetry
“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”
“He felt like something deep inside had broken. He'd asked for nothing; he'd tried to content himself with as little as it was possible to want. Yet here he was, feeling humiliated and small once again.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“He felt like the gravestones. Rooted in the earth. Here he was, packed and ready to move hours away for a fresh start. However, he felt like his heart was being left behind--lodged into the ground right next to her headstone.”
Source: What Grace Washed Up
“He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.”
“He felt married to her, that was all.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. Inside him, a lack of willpower and a colossal tension battled it out. He felt both weak and furious at the same time. He went around with his fists clenched, ready to fight, yet what he wanted most of all was to hold and be held.”
Source: We, the Drowned
“He felt more cheerful, revived by the journey, released from himself and his poor life, uplifted by thoughts of the infinite.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow worse.”
Source: It
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.”
Source: Archangel
“He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.”
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts"
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.”
Source: The Suicide Club
“He felt removed from reality.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.”
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“He felt sad, angry and sorry. It was impossible to let the people benefit fully from scientific and ideological progress without first raising the level of cultural awareness of the masses. They had to discard all the traditional molds that were still narrowing their minds.”
Source: The Gasp
“He felt sad, sad.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He felt safe. That was all that mattered to him. At long last, they were safe.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.”
Source: Water Bound
“He felt satisfaction that the attack had gone as he anticipated, but he also felt oddly empty about the experience. He’d expected adrenaline. He’d expected the high of being back in the game. Instead, the violence itself had done nothing for him. Watching her realize that he’d won, watching the light go out of her eyes, had been a hollow victory.
Maria Lopes would be different.”
Source: The Voice Inside
“He felt shocked. But he also felt in some way relieved, for it is better to admit some facts, even hard, bitter facts, than to go on pretending that they don't exist.”
Source: Pigs Might Fly
“He felt so... empty. He felt so lost. So lost in a world he was so sure he would be okay to maneuver alone in. So lost in a world that once seemed so easy to figure out and establish where you were and where you needed to be. But nothing about this life without Brantley Thornton would be easy to figure out. He wasn’t sure where he was and where he needed to be when the only place he felt he truly knew and needed to be was in Brantley Thornton’s arms.”
Source: Counting Stars
“He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.”
“He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in fact, he could not cry with no tear ducts. But now, at last, he was. He was crying tears of blood. For her.”
“He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.”
Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang
“He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.”
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of security against people was to hide his wounds from them”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“He felt that he had always been there, among the apple trees, watching for the woman in the tower to come to her window. Seasons may have passed, years may have grown green on the bough, then withered and fallen, but he would stand there and wait for a chance to keep a promise he had made.”
Source: Belle Noir: Tales of Love and Magic
“He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.”
“He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“He felt that he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.”
“He felt that his career was leading him to a point where he would become dependent on success, and that frightened him, because he had seen a lot of people plummet from the heights.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“He felt that his mentat faculties had been dulled, let out a long, shuddering breath. A psychic shadow passed over him. In the emotional darkness of it, he felt himself waiting for some absolute sound—the snap of a branch in a jungle.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“He felt that if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“He felt that if they had both not kept up appearances, but had spoken, as it is called, from the heart—that is to say, had said only just what they were thinking and feeling—they would simply have looked into each other's faces, and Konstantin could only have said, "You're dying, you're dying!" and Nikolay could only have answered, "I know I'm dying, but I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid!" And they could have said nothing more, if they had said only what was in their hearts. But life like that was impossible, and so Konstantin tried to do what he had been trying to do all his life, and never could learn to do, though, as far as he could observe, many people knew so well how to do it, and without it there was no living at all. He tried to say what he was not thinking, but he felt continually that it had a ring of falsehood, that his brother detected him in it, and was exasperated at it.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“He felt that race was not a characteristic that was a part of his identity, but one that was projected upon him by the gaze of others who looked on him; as such it was ephemeral, there and gone as soon as the gaze was broken.”
Source: Version Control
“He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.”
“He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451