Diversion Quotes

“Diversion weakens thy mind.”

— Toba Beta

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

— Joseph Conrad

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

— Fawn M. Brodie

God is not a diversion.

— Desmond Tutu

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

— Melissa McBride

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

— Jamaica Kincaid

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

— Isabel Paterson

“Estar triste no es aburrirse. Yo estoy triste, pero me la paso bien.”

— Albert Camus

“That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter”

— Henri Bergson

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

— B. C. Forbes

“And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!”

— John Galsworthy

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

— John Ortberg

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that…

— Danica McKellar

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not…

— George W. Bush

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age,…

— George Andrew Olah

“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one…

— Susan Sontag

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral…

— Aldo Leopold

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an…

— Alan Moore

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

— Blaise Pascal

Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general…

— Ray McGovern

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and…

— Alice Munro

I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the…

— Angeles Arrien

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.…

— Blaise Pascal

Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and…

— Dallas Willard

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The…

— Horace Greeley

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space…

— Pico Iyer

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a…

— N. T. Wright

Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd…

— Denise Levertov

“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which…

— William H. Shannon

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from…

— Blaise Pascal

And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for…

— Hilary Mantel

“People who don't deal with the problem constructively will often cope in ways that lead to unsustainable behavior. These include the diversion…

— Anonymous

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it…

— Blaise Pascal

The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's…

— Lewis Mumford

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

— Jonathan Swift

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

— Peter Kreeft