Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For… — Stephenie Meyer
Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very… — Haruki Murakami
Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity. — Peter Mayle
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful. — Anne Michaels
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities. — Haruki Murakami
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into… — Edward Abbey
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the… — Emma Goldman
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves… — James A. Baldwin
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don’t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. — James Lee Burke
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries… — Paul Brunton
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives. — Albert Camus
Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating. — James Patterson
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
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity. — Naguib Mahfouz
...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel — Edgar Allan Poe
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps… — Brennan Manning
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around… — Boris Pasternak
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? — Charlotte Bronte

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