Succumbs Quotes

#1. The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

H.L. Mencken

#2. The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#4. Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!

ABD- RU-SHIN

#5. Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. - W. H. AUDEN,

Mitch Albom

#6. No punching?" he asked.
"No."
"No kicking?"
"No."
"How about arm wrestling?"
"No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."
Fate Succumbs

Tammy Blackwell

#7. An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Heinrich Boll

#8. When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

Tennessee Williams

#9. If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Khaleda Zia

#10. The first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide.

Eleanor Catton

#11. The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

Honore De Balzac

#12. The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Octavio Paz

#13. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?

Lisa Klein

#14. One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

Carl Jung

#15. The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Will Durant

#16. Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Denis De Rougemont

#17. Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

#18. Seek and listen for that silent sound of surety, in the stillness of peace succumbs your confidence.

Anthony Liccione

#19. No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt.

Simone Weil

#20. Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it's clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn't really philosophical to begin with.

Jerry A. Fodor

#21. Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Carl Jung

#22. Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#23. I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

Charles Dickens

#24. You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

Donna Karan

#25. Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.

John K. Brown

#26. Two rights don't equal a left.

Roald Dahl

#27. Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

Amit Ray

#28. Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

Laozi

#29. No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.

Charles Baudelaire

#30. If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

Elizabeth Lesser

#31. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi