Forsake Quotes
142 Forsake quotes by 117 unique authors
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Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to…
— Robert Adams
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This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake…
— Pope Clement I
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We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us…
— Philip Gulley
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May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much…
— Guru Nanak
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When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress,…
— Joel Houston
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The…
— John Dryden
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
— George Eliot
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to…
— Rand Paul
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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
— Marcel Proust
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The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I…
— Sherri Shepherd
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I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock…
— Dorothy Parker
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
— Richard Dawkins
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It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,…
— John Clare
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness.…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him…
— John Eldredge
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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
— James Frey
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Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has…
— Bell Hooks
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What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on…
— Elif Safak
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And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter…
— Anne Rice
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A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us…
— Terryl L. Givens
Who Wrote These Forsake Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 142 Forsake Quotes, led by these top contributors: