Edward Abbey Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Suffering, Action

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

• I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

  Edward Abbey

  Suffering, Despise, Stills

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.151, Macmillan

• The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

  Edward Abbey

  Acceptance, Suffering Of Others, Heroic

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

• Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Fire, Self

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

• If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Suffering, Ancestor

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

• Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

  Edward Abbey

  Suffering, Desire, Delight

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

• I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Suffering, Half

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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