Deserving Quotes

196 quotes by 167 authors

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything. — Albert Camus
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. — Marilynne Robinson
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that… — Jose Saramago
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. — Hermann Hesse
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us… — Ursula K. Le Guin
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of… — Haruki Murakami
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the… — Peter S. Beagle
Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words… — Cassandra Clare
These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to… — Marilynne Robinson
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? — Jodi Picoult
One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an… — John Fante
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd… — John Steinbeck
Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people. — Tucker Max
For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. — Margaret Atwood
As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea… — David Platt
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to… — Maya Angelou
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… — Muriel Barbery

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