Top 25 Quotes About Ascetics
#1. It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.
D.H. Lawrence
#2. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.
Antal Szerb
#3. But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.
Jorge Luis Borges
#4. Soon the Laughing Man has amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery- humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs.
J.D. Salinger
#5. I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha. He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
Hermann Hesse
#6. It would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#8. We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.
Peter Sagal
#9. The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#10. The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
Nick Harkaway
#11. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Betty Ford
#12. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
Bill Clinton
#13. Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer.
Peter Sloterdijk
#14. I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
#15. But given everything I do know, no matter how hard it is, how lonely or stressful, still, I would not want to leave this earth without being a mother.
Kelly Corrigan
#16. In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
Pete Wentz
#18. Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#19. The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
Brendan Behan
#20. Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
Bill James
#21. Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#22. I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
J. Cole
#23. You know what people do when they have to face something uncomfortable? They blame the thing that makes them feel bad, even if it's not that thing's fault.
Megan Hart
#24. I wonder what people do when they have no place to go and no place to be.
Colleen Hoover
#25. Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.
Robert Lane Greene
