Violently Quotes

• If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paintings
  • Violently
  • National Gallery

• In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Place
  • Violently
  • Nature Things

• People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

  

  Allen Drury
  • Pretense
  • Violently

• And I fell violently on my face.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Face
  • Fell
  • Violently

• I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a brief infatuation with someone unattainable' and 'to be violently squashed.

  

  Elna Baker
  • Crush
  • Describe
  • Infatuation

• A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.

  

  Eric Partridge
  • Strike
  • Violently
  • Dash

• One never paints violently enough.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Paints
  • Violently