Top 100 Taken Away Quotes
#1. When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they're taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won't affect your life, it does.
E.L. Montes
#2. When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
Jeff Kinney
#3. The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
Robert Graves
#4. Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference
Barbara Elsborg
#5. In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
Jay Parini
#6. Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
John McGahern
#7. He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.
Orson Scott Card
#8. So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.
Chris Carter
#9. Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.
David Schwarzer
#10. By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
Stephen King
#12. Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Matthew McConaughey
#13. It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
Drew Barrymore
#14. When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.
James Nesbitt
#15. When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
Marian Keyes
#16. When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in "the beyond" - in nothingness - then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
Penn Jillette
#18. I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.
Leonora Carrington
#19. The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
Hannah Kearney
#20. A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. One realizes that he is born of this country where everything is given to be taken away.
Albert Camus
#22. Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away.
Patrick Hamilton
#23. The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Seneca The Younger
#24. I make mistakes and I move on. That's what I do, that's what I've always done. I leave, and other people leave. You're the first person in my whole life who stayed. And then you were taken away. But now you're here again ... and you're trying to leave me. That fucking hurts, too.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#25. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Anonymous
#26. Pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
Walter Dean Myers
#27. I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
Louise Gluck
#28. There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer
#29. If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#30. We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#31. Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.
Marian Keyes
#32. The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
Jeff Koons
#33. CII ABBOT PASTOR said: Just as bees are driven out by smoke, and their honey is taken away from them, so a life of ease drives out the fear of the Lord from man's soul and takes away all his good works.
Thomas Merton
#34. It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.
Bootsy Collins
#35. Whosoever hath, to him it shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that
Neville Goddard
#36. People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.
Bushra Satkhed
#37. She couldn't believe all their happiness had nearly been taken away from them.
Vicky Pattison
#38. People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.
Jim Abbott
#39. In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
Dick Durbin
#40. I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do
Mary E. Pearson
#41. People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.
Haruki Murakami
#42. That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.
George Jung
#43. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
Mark Twain
#44. Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.
Carol Matas
#45. Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.
Magnus Backstedt
#46. The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn
Susan Abulhawa
#48. Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants ... I wish it would do more interesting things!
Russell Brand
#49. Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.
Sunday Adelaja
#50. I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.
Christopher Columbus
#51. If there was one thing that I'd taken away from my parents' marriage, it was that no one would ever be worth my happiness or the waste of my time.
O.E. Boroni
#52. Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Sidney Sheldon
#53. People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn't enough to shake them out of it.
Robert Galbraith
#54. Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.
Katherine Anne Porter
#55. What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
#56. Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
David Gemmell
#57. Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.
Robert Charles Wilson
#58. Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.
Lauren Henderson
#59. Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
Sadie Frost
#60. If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.
John Calvin
#61. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?
Noorilhuda
#62. When they'd settled into bed last night, everything had seemed good and safe. Yeah, maybe this was worse, to have that suddenly taken away.
James Dashner
#63. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
Anna Friel
#64. A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
Joseph Joubert
#65. All the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.
Alexander McCall Smith
#66. With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.
Luke Ford
#67. The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.
Chaim Weizmann
#68. I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken away from you, and so you value what you have. I had two very nice little boys, so sweet, and a very good husband.
Kimberly Quinn
#69. One of the few freedoms we have in District 12 is the right to marry who we want or not marry at all. And now even that has been taken away from me. I
Suzanne Collins
#70. Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.
Debbie Ford
#71. Our suffering, as well as our joy, shapes who we are and who we will become. We may wish for all of our trials to be taken away, but to do so would be a great disservice to our personal growth.
Callie Kanno
#72. Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#73. I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.
Geena Davis
#74. When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances ... Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night ...
Ai Yazawa
#75. A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#76. Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.
Adyashanti
#77. I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
Michael J. Fox
#78. Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are, when you're on the saddle, you're taken away.
Doug Donaldson
#79. Through the person of Christ, God has taken away any power of anything designed to hurt us.
Jim Reimann
#80. Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.
Nancy Werlin
#81. What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours. It can always be taken away. But even if we lose everything we work for, the achievement is ours forever.
C.W. Gortner
#82. You know, we can't keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God's creation and just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.
Hillary Clinton
#83. Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
James Otis
#84. There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
Dorothy Height
#85. The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.
Ram Dass
#86. Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
Hannah Arendt
#87. If the borderline rage that had fueled me for so long was torn down and taken away, would there be anything left? Or would it take the life, the spirit, right out of me? I was daunted by the prospect of letting go without a clear idea of what would emerge in the old framework's place.
Rachel Reiland
#88. Ain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.
Robyn Schneider
#89. Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.
Derek Holland
#90. Any of the kneeling girls who fell over was taken away to be gassed,
Clive James
#91. I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.
Helen Hunt
#92. You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
Philip K. Dick
#93. It wasn't until the drive home, while Ian gazed out the passenger window, that I remembered the old woman had described us as two young people in love. Was this what it was like to be in love? To know that you had something precious and live in constant terror it'd be taken away?
Megan Erickson
#94. I would love to act for the rest of my life, but I also know that it could be taken away in a day. It's something I've always loved, but it's nothing I've ever revolved my entire life around. I have many other passions as well.
Shailene Woodley
#95. Whenever I hear a kid complain about their parents or even their siblings, I want to shake them. They don't realize what they have, and they especially don't realize that it could be taken away from them at any time.
Deb Hanrahan
#96. A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
David Whyte
#97. But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
Antonin Scalia
#98. It makes me sad that grown up books don't have pictures in them. You're brought up with them when you're younger, and then suddenly they're all taken away.
Jen Campbell
#99. The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away
Yasmin Mogahed
#100. Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer
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