Absolutes Quotes - Page 17

• In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

  Karl Rahner

  Struggle, Blue, Decision

  Karl Rahner, Albert Raffelt, Harvey D. Egan (1993). “The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner's Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations”, Crossroad Publishing Company

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dirty, Men, Special

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

  Graham Greene

  Years, Childhood, Forever

  8 Copy quote

• How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

  Ian Mcewan

  Novelists, Outcomes, Atonement

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

  Tom Robbins

  Fate, Adequate, Matter

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.22, Bantam

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

  Shirley Jackson

  Life, Reality, Long

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.34, Penguin

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.351, Penguin

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Marriage, Opportunity, May

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.40, BookRix

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

  Wallace Stegner

  Law, Mind, West

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.22, University of Michigan Press

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Feelings, Made

  4 Copy quote

• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Father, Our Father, Deserving

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Other Worlds, Circles, Heaven

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.41, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

  Graham Greene

  Rain, Fall, Two

  Graham Greene (1971). “The heart of the matter”, Vintage

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Cat, Emotional

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Reality, World Love

  8 Copy quote

• Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Political, Doe

  26 Copy quote

• Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Government, Safety

  18 Copy quote

• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Men, Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.32, Univ of California Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.

  Muhammad Asad

  Islamic, Perfect, Support

  70 Copy quote

• Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Mean, Law

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Reality, Ideas, Ego

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

  Audre Lorde

  Differences, People, Rejection

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Giving, Tears

  11 Copy quote

• Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

  Tom Robbins

  Evil, Revolver, Standards

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.349, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source