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Abnegation Quotes by Veronica Roth
- I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
- I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that…
- When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go…
- It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery.…
- Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He…
- She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are…
- I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will…
- I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or…
- Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or…
- Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and...I felt like…
- No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That…
- So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.
- Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’……
- Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation,…
- I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage…
- I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I…
- I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.
- Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
- This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors…
- But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and…
More Abnegation Quotes
- The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
- A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens
- A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo
- In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which… — Michael Faraday
- And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.… — L. Ron Hubbard
- Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn