Roughens Quotes & Sayings

These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [ ... ]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her. — Haruki Murakami

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul. — Joseph Conrad

Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use. — Patrick Rothfuss

I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car — Dennis Lehane

I don't have to answer. Until you know the question. — Julie Anne Peters

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses. — June Havoc

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor

Rather than be searched by hand, I chose to walk through the metal detector without my cart or my tank or even the plastic nubbins in my nose. Walking through the X-ray machine marked the first time I'd taken a step without oxygen in some months, and it felt pretty amazing to walk unencumbered like that, stepping across the Rubicon, the machine's silence acknowledging that I was, however briefly, a nonmetallicized creature. I felt a bodily sovereignty that I can't really describe except to say that when I was a kid I used to have a really heavy backpack that I carried everywhere with all my books in it, and if I walked around with the backpack for long enough, when I took it off I felt like I was floating. — John Green

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves. — Taylor Swift