Extinguish Quotes
67 quotes by 61 authors
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When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my…
— Anne Rice
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Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
— Tom Perrotta
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Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to…
— William Wilberforce
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He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world,…
— Ayn Rand
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At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart,…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self…
— Steven Pressfield
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Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
— A. E. Housman
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible,…
— Victor Hugo
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
— Tabitha Suzuma
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Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always…
— Haruki Murakami
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I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more…
— Douglas Coupland
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be…
— Victor Hugo
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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
— Charles Duhigg
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A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting…
— Thomas Brooks
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes…
— A. E. Housman
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Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.
— Shinjo Ito
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