corrode QUOTES

1 " To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation. "

― Leinad Eibam, Published Poet

2 " Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody. "

― Washington Irving , The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

3 " I tell you, say the rich,
the poor are naught
but dirty wind
welling in air-shafts
over the cinders
and droppings of
the past, their
voices thick
with grease
and ordure,
sewer-greed
to corrode the ear
with the horrors
of the past
and the voids
of new stupidity.
One could drown
waiting for the poor
to make
one fine distinction.
Yes, destroy us
say the rich
and you lose
the roots
of God. "

― Norman Mailer , Deaths For The Ladies (and other disasters)

4 " Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction,’ wrote John Muir. ‘Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.’ Now I knew this for what it was: a beguiling but dangerous lie. I was furious with myself and my own conscious certainty that t his was the cure I needed. Hands are for other humans to hold. They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks. And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing. "

― Helen Macdonald , H is for Hawk

5 " Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted. "

― Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged

6 " Holy fuck. Testing, testing. Is this thing on or has Botox already begun to corrode her brain cells? "

― S.L. Jennings

7 " What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless. "

― Sheldon Vanauken , A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph

8 " Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills. "

― Charlie Jane Anders , All the Birds in the Sky (All the Birds in the Sky, #1)