Immolation Quotes

#1. Self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#2. What possesses them, these young girls with a talent for self-immolation?

Margaret Atwood

#3. Self-defense ... is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Anger is self-immolation.

Phillips Brooks

#5. The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

Claire Forlani

#6. No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.

H.L. Mencken

#7. The archtraitor and madman Shuos Jedao had appeared as a Ninefox Crowned with Eyes, visionary and strategist, but had proved to be an Immolation Fox.

Yoon Ha Lee

#8. Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much.

Tana French

#9. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.

William Faulkner

#10. All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

Mikhail Bakunin

#11. Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.

Mark Lawrence

#12. This is your last chance, Control. But it wasn't. It was, instead, an immolation. If he was remembered at all, it would be as the harbinger of disaster.

Jeff VanderMeer

#13. Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation.
Ashe to ashes.
It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.

Robert Dunbar

#14. Out the window in the distance, contradicting the prairie, a mirage of downtown Chicago ascended to a kind of lurid acropolis, its light as if from nightly immolation warped to the red end of the spectrum, smoldering as if always just about to explode into open flames.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would dare attack the other, because to do so would result in its own immolation.

Mal Peet

#16. But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

Margaret Atwood

#17. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Thomas Wolfe

#18. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation.

Kerry Greenwood

#20. It's just me throwing myself at you,
romance as usual, us times us,
not lust but moxibustion,
a substance burning close
to the body as possible
without risk of immolation.

Alice Fulton

#21. I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.

Joshua Ferris

#22. I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous.

Katy B

#23. Who will kiss you? Who will rock you to sleep?" His voice was slow, drowsy.
"You never did," I said, trying to tease him. "You were more father to me than my father, but you never did that."
"Someone should. Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

Rachel Hartman

#24. Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#25. I love playing villains.

Alfred Molina

#26. There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

Michelle Tea

#27. There is no delete button for bigotry.

Tom Brokaw

#28. But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.

Jeffery Deaver

#29. I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

Jeremy Irvine

#30. I feel happy and hearty grateful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#32. Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert James Waller

#33. Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Eric Maskin

#34. All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

Bruce Campbell