Ungentle Quotes

Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle. — J.R.R. Tolkien

faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes! — Stephanie Thornton

That's all there is; there isn't any more. — Ethel Barrymore

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese

But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars. — Gregory David Roberts

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke

The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure. — Arthur Christopher Benson

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. — Jose Raul Capablanca