Desertion Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
— Samuel Butler
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The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death,…
— John Nelson Darby
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of…
— J P Donleavy
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people…
— Mother Teresa
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft,…
— Samuel Beckett
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career…
— Hallie Erminie Rives
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they…
— Emile Zola
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather…
— Lysander Spooner
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When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried…
— David McCullough
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
— Marcel Proust
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So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.
— Louisa May Alcott
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
— Graham Greene
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
— Virginia Woolf
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You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Time would not change what I was feeling--or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing.…
— Tammara Webber
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Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get…
— Stephen Colbert
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The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.
— Dorothy Corkille Briggs
Who Wrote These Desertion Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Desertion Quotes as follows: