Condemned Quotes

484 Condemned quotes by 383 unique authors

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. — Alain de Botton
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to… — C.S. Lewis
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No,… — Emile Zola
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the… — Gunter Grass
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than… — Marcel Proust
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help… — Sarah Vowell
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. — Francesco Guicciardini
This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no .… — Jackson Pearce
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called… — Joseph Conrad
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the… — MacDonald Harris
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue… — Umberto Eco
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and… — Anna Kavan
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I… — C.S. Lewis
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the… — David Keirsey
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go… — Ford Madox Ford
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… — Joseph Conrad
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die… — Margaret Drabble
People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy,… — Rick Doblin

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