Top 16 Quotes About Filial Duty
#1. A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. For instance, he has a duty of loyalty to his lord, a filial duty to his parents, a duty to help his friends, and a duty of common humanity towards his fellow beings.
Lao-Tzu
#2. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao-Tzu
#4. As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Richard Flanagan
#5. The only burden you have ever had is your mind.
Robert Adams
#6. He leans up, and I kiss him, smiling against his lips. This is definitely better than bacon.
Alexa Riley
#7. He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.
Joan D. Vinge
#8. Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
Juliana Hatfield
#9. The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#11. If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
William Morris
#14. Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.
Dennis Lehane
#15. Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in useless things.
Seneca.
#16. I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.
Nicolas Cage
