Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? - William Shakespeare
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. - Czesław Miłosz
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker
When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch - J.A. Huss
You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. . - James Alan Gardner
My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past - Munia Khan
She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone. - Donna Lynn Hope