Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate… — Audre Lorde
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for… — Bertrand Russell
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false… — J.R.R. Tolkien
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. — C.S. Lewis
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man… — Agatha Christie
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal. — William S. Burroughs
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. — Anais Nin
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to… — Georges Bataille
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.… — Joseph Heller
Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you. — Anne Rice
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. — H.G. Wells
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was… — Stephenie Meyer
Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion… — Niccolo Machiavelli
...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. — Don DeLillo
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us… — Albert Camus
Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a… — Joanne Fluke
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
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;… — John Locke
What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or… — Frank Herbert

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