Negation Quotes - Page 6

• Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about it—relief is really the status quo, a negation of the suffering, a nothing in itself. It is the way things were before the pressure and struggle began.So, is it a step back? A regression?Or is it an opportunity to regroup, start over, and move in a different direction?Use your moment of relief well.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, Moving, Struggle

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• [The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

  Marya Mannes

  Ocean, Fighting, Self

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• Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  People, Hospitality, Method

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• I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

  Norman Hartnell

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Despise

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Self, Names, People

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

  Anna Kavan

  People, Wish, Mountain

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• Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

  Corliss Lamont

  Philosophy, Improvement, Humanist

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• Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Affirmation, Passive

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• The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Order, People

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1915). “Social Evils and Their Remedy”

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• Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Liberty

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