Quotes About Consummation

#1. What GOD has joined together, let no man put asunder. Your consummation is an eternal binding. It is a glorious mystery not realized by many, and abused by most." ~SCRIBER~

Lucian Bane

#2. Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

C.S. Lewis

#3. As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#4. What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

Mary Shelley

#7. Consummation is consumption
We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume
All joys are cakes and vanish in eating
All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth

Wilfred Owen

#8. The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby

Priyavrat Thareja

#9. This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?

A. Manette Ansay

#11. To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

James Dickey

#12. Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal

#13. The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.

F.H. Bradley

#14. All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#15. Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live ... in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Anatole Broyard

#16. As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

C.S. Lewis

#17. I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies.

Jack Kerouac

#18. To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.

David Whyte

#19. And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation ...

Abraham Lincoln

#20. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Aldous Huxley

#21. Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations. He

James Allen

#22. Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life.

Charles Bukowski

#23. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other ...

Roland Barthes

#24. I ask of writing what I ask of desire: that it have no relation to the logic which puts desire on the side of possession, of acquisition, or even of that consumption-consummation which, when pushed to its limits with such exultation, links (false) consciousness with death

Helene Cixous

#25. We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished - a reunited country.

Jefferson Davis

#27. Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

Thomas Jefferson

#28. true love finds its consummation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Woodrow Wilson

#30. Is this different? Does love make lovemaking better? Does Nick feel this holy consummation, this wonder and beauty, this eternity, the way I do? Or is sex simply like this, designed by Nature to fool us all into multiplying?

Beatriz Williams

#31. There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.

Clive Barker

#32. This, for eternity. He closed his eyes and wished. Her eyelashes on his cheek, her thighs on his waist, the first consummation of this terrifying thing they'd done. Marriage meant forever.

Lauren Groff

#33. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Richard Hofstadter

#34. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#35. They wear themselves out in vain travail, without reaching their blessed consummation, because they delight in creatures, not in the Creator.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#36. Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny
the consummation of their own desires.

Martin Delany

#37. The consummation of a revelation is always dependent upon its genesis.

Grant Horner

#38. The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

Susan Sontag

#39. Trying to figure out a person that you don't know is like foreplay
with no consummation.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#40. The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

William Barclay

#41. The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

C.S. Lewis

#42. Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.

Jimmy Carter

#43. There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved, and love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such shall be the universe, imperishable, divine.

George MacDonald

#44. If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it ... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

Ernest Becker

#45. We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire,
and so we live a mediocre life,
never bringing to consummation
the primary impulse of our heart.

David Deida

#46. The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

Thomas Aquinas

#47. But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the whole of life is but one long combat with it, more and more triumphant, on its part, to the consummation, namely, death; and then the reign of decay is exclusive.

Gustave Flaubert

#48. Anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

Gaynor Arnold

#49. You know what they say. First, it starts with conjugation. Then it leads to consummation.

Lauren Blakely

#50. But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

Fred Reinfeld

#51. God is thus experienced as that bliss in which our natures have their consummation because that bliss is already, in God, the perfect consummation of the divine unity of being and consciousness: infinite being knows itself in infinite consciousness and therefore infinitely rejoices.

David Bentley Hart

#52. mission is what "God is doing in the world through the church, and even without the church, to bring his creation to its consummation: unity and fullness in Jesus Christ.

Sarah Bessey

#53. of the agreed facts: the official bedding; the young couple co-habiting at Ludlow; their youth and health; and the absence of any concern about the consummation of their marriage; convincingly indicates

Philippa Gregory

#54. You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian]

Karen Maitland

#55. In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

Felix Adler

#56. When love becomes a perfect fire it leaves only ashes.

Marty Rubin