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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom. — Elizabeth Peters

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. — Richard Yates

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you. — Tarjei Vesaas

My girlfriend is a party girl angel who can kick some arse and cook. — Wendy Higgins

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. — Albert Camus

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life. — Marco Rubio

It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing. — John Green

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions
crushing them down desperately! — Noel Coward

I lean closer and whisper. I'm already there, so I guess I'll wait for you — Jolene Perry

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you ... you won't be able to walk. — Kentaro Miura

I know that you're worried about me, but crushing my lungs isn't going to help anyone. — Sara Massa

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people. — Elizabeth Warren

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls. — David Levithan

I want to hope, to dream, to have faith again, but the soulless weight of reality keeps crushing me down. — Anonymous

It takes over - fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you. — Nicholas Sparks

Strength is more than crushing a creature beneath you until it is squashed. It is facing the dark truth even after the last shred of hope has died. — Tracy Ann Miller

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. — Zora Neale Hurston

That's it. It's all going to end.
The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle. — Brandon Sanderson

Any hot plans for the weekend, Peabody?"
"My usual, flicking off men like flies, breaking hearts, crushing souls. — J.D. Robb

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world
to an individual or to a nation. — Frank Sinatra

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt. — Michael Bennet

Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible. — Lisa Harris

at least there was another human being to share the weight of this crushing knowledge. — Blake Crouch

I know his pain, the horrible crushing sadness of loving something gentle only to see it ripped apart by the hard world. — Pierce Brown

Luke used to give me butterflies. Noah spawned mutant pterodactyls. — Katie McGarry

I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced. — Anne Hathaway

Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence. — Irving Howe

Where were all the people I loved? I could feel them, flung about, the distance between us a crushing weight that I myself had put there. — Jan Ellison

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance ... living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. — H. P. Blavatsky

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page. — Stephan Pastis

Watching him walk away, she considered his laconic attitude and reluctant decency, and she thought she might be crushing on him just a little. Two — Thea Harrison

But our brains are always crushing ambiguity into choices. — David Eagleman

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work. — Julian Assange

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He was drowning in the Time, could feel it crushing him, like an ancient forest being crushed into oil. — Neil Gaiman

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. — Chris Gethard

Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension. — Pessoa, Fernando

Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. — Zora Neale Hurston

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. — Olivia De Havilland

love is not just excitement, tenderness, feeling special; it is also a bone-crushing reality of pain. — Melissa A. Hanson

Oh my God! I'm crushing an angel. Let me up! — Nalini Singh

It's a strange feeling, owning a secret. It's like a stone in my stomach, crushing my insides and making me feel sick every time I think of it. — Fiona Barton

But crushing truths perish from being acknowledged. — Albert Camus

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes

Having spent time in Hell, he knew that government paperwork was the closest mankind had ever come to achieving true soul-crushing misery. — Larry Correia

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. — Ronald Reagan

I am free,' he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it. — Claire Danes

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. — Gillian Flynn

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum. — John F. Kennedy

But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world. — Thomas Hardy

I've never been one for crushing on famous people. — Daisy Ridley

Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder.
"Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no ...
"Yeah."
Crap. "Great. — Jolene Perry

There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things I've loved. — Lauren Oliver

Yeah i thought about making the character of JD gay ... But then i thought, but what about all the poor girls dreams you'll be crushing — Zach Braff

The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda. — Bob Graham

i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips. — AVA.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. — Milan Kundera

He was my drummer. My guy. Mine. I bit my lip to hold back a grin. — Wendy Higgins

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. — Abby Sunderland

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom. — Victoria Chang

That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away. — Ian McEwan

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in. — Cassandra Clare

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today. — David Miliband

My phone buzzes again.
Crush: You're single. I'm single. Let's mingle. — Jillian Dodd

Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you! — Anne Tyler

Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper

If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true. — Sam Altman

By crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas. — Bhagat Singh

A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies. — Genghis Khan

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir

That's what love does to you. Gut-wrenching, overpowering, crushing, fulfilling, complex, bring-you-to-your-knees love. — Jessica Park

The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been, — Ruth Ahmed

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place. — Paige Toon

Crushing people is the truth's hobby. — Mark Waid

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

Grace could not have done it's curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work. — Tullian Tchividjian

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. — Sophocles

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. — Margaret Atwood

When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger. — Samael Aun Weor

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life ... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better. — Warren Buffett

Every text session my crush introduce me with a new quality in her crush, and trust me it's crushing my emotions...!! — Akansh Malik

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs. — Ted Cruz

Revenge is as the tigers spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel. — George Gordon Byron

She inches closer so we're practically sharing the same air. Maybe we are, because I'm light-headed. — Kat Kruger

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable. — Anthony Trollope

I need my skull in one piece. Crushing it would be like taking a wrecking ball to some secret museum before anyone ever got to see what's inside. — Jandy Nelson

My present crush is crushing my past crush...Can I summarize "Crush Crushing & now Crushed — Akansh Malik

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. — Rose George

Tell me, if I ever caught you
and kissed the arch of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little after that
for fear of crushing my kiss? ... — Nichita Stanescu

The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them. — Edward T. Welch

His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. — James Joyce

You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are. — Ron Koertge