Edward Abbey Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Men, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Writing, Enemy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.37, RosettaBooks

• Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sex, Fun

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.123, Macmillan

• Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Lying, Mean

• Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Greed, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

• If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

• In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

• Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Heaven, Kingdoms

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

• The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, World, Sufficient

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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