Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better…

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of…

— Georges Bernanos

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks…

— St. Jerome

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted…

— Henry David Thoreau

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

— Anonymous

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

— Frederick Lenz

Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.

— Frederick Lenz

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of…

— Emile M. Cioran

If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the oxygen, is…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps…

— Mohsin Hamid

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

— Charles Baudelaire

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to…

— William O. Douglas