Aversion Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. — Ellen G. White
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. — Ram Dass
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than… — Samuel Johnson
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well,… — Hermann Hesse
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are… — Henepola Gunaratana
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my… — Irvine Welsh
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect. — Ivan Turgenev
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I… — Georgette Heyer
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend… — Wayne Dyer
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back… — Honore de Balzac
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our… — Stephen Levine
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his… — James A. Baldwin
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust — Samuel Beckett
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help… — John Dewey
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything. — Tove Jansson
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body… — Tad Williams

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