Edward Abbey Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Marriage, Laughter

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.381, Big Earth Publishing

• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

• A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more
  grotesque, like a soul without a body.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Men, Soul

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

• Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Speak, Melancholy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

• Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Passion, Foundation

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