Life Quotes by Edward Abbey

Life: another day, another dolor.

— Edward Abbey

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

— Edward Abbey

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

— Edward Abbey

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

— Edward Abbey

Simplicity is always a virtue.

— Edward Abbey

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

— Edward Abbey

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

— Edward Abbey

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

— Edward Abbey

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

— Edward Abbey

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

— Edward Abbey

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

— Edward Abbey

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

— Edward Abbey

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

— Edward Abbey

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

— Edward Abbey

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

— Edward Abbey

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

— Edward Abbey

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already…

— Edward Abbey

“Life is a bitch, his dark companion said–and then you die. Not so cried Henry! Life is a glorious shining and splendid…

— Edward Abbey

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty…

— Edward Abbey

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets --…

— Edward Abbey

“We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living…

— Edward Abbey

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically…

— Edward Abbey

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments…

— Edward Abbey

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

— Edward Abbey

“To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock…

— Edward Abbey

“For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your…

— Edward Abbey

“There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a…

— Edward Abbey

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima…

— Edward Abbey

“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there…

— Edward Abbey

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding…

— Edward Abbey

“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.…

— Edward Abbey

“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human…

— Edward Abbey

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…

— Edward Abbey

“Like a god, like an ogre? The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I wish to suppress in myself, to…

— Edward Abbey

“The world is big but it is comprehensible," says R. Buckminster Fuller. But it seems to me that the world is not…

— Edward Abbey

“Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/or economical purpose -- carried out against…

— Edward Abbey

“I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also…

— Edward Abbey

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other…

— Edward Abbey

“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real…

— Edward Abbey

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

— Edward Abbey