Diminished Quotes

239 quotes by 213 authors

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. — P.D. James
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he… — Desmond Tutu
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished… — Thomas Pynchon
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
If it wasnâ€™t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant… — Victor Hugo
An honor is not diminished for being shared. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Now that I think about it, it seems to me thatâ€™s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you… — Julio Cortazar
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity. — P.D. James
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience… — Bram Stoker
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy.… — James Frey
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hairâ€”no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no… — Meredith Ann Pierce
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before… — J.R.R. Tolkien
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway… — Jhumpa Lahiri
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each… — John Ortberg
It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I… — Jodi Picoult

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