Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 306 authors

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up… — Chuck Palahniuk
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is… — Simone Weil
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. — Jane Austen
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth.… — Jonathan Littell
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, itâ€™s indispensable. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable. — Andre Gide
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. — H.G. Wells
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… — Roland Barthes
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked… — Freya Stark
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life… — Wendell Berry
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in… — Neil Postman
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. — Charles Dickens
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat… — Christopher McDougall
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking… — Thomas Hardy
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops,… — Thomas Hardy
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dÃ©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dÃ©nouement constantly… — Edgar Allan Poe
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? — Margaret Atwood
We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood,… — Peter HÃ¸eg
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if… — Anne Rice
To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental… — Viktor E. Frankl

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