Abject Quotes

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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. — Kirk Douglas
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude… — Christopher Hitchens
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch Spinoza
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as… — Ratan Tata
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. — Muhammad Yunus
I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out,… — Jonathan Ames
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a… — Mary Ann Shaffer
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor. — Rick Riordan
Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there… — Harlan Coben
...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful deathâ€”or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of… — Eoin Colfer
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,… — Virginia Woolf
And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt… — Cassandra Clare
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A… — Christopher Hitchens
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… — Christopher Hitchens
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could… — Jean Rhys
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly. — Tessa Dare

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