Profane Words Quotes

#1. Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954

Sylvia Plath

#2. We read that men are born equal, but that is no reason forgiving them all an equal vote. (Actually, we probably read that men are born equal. Born equal carries an implication that they do not remain equal for long.)

Anonymous

#3. In other words, the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.

Walter Benjamin

#4. It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

Paulo Coelho

#5. When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Never - NEVER touch me again, you filthy fucking animal, replied Gora standing over the writhing Hitbear.

Brad McKinniss

#7. Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.

John Patrick Hickey

#8. Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.

Harper Lee

#9. My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Taylor Swift

#10. Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

Murray Rothbard

#11. Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it ... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#12. You never forget your first and true love, Ayden Grey. Not officially, not ever.

Nadege Richards

#13. A G-string is a permanent self-inflicted wedgie.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.

W.C. Fields

#15. Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Vincent Of Lerins

#17. More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Arthur Helps