Best Negation Quotations
88 Negation quotes by 83 unique authors
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
— Samuel Beckett
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of…
— Pope John Paul II
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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its…
— Theodor Adorno
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My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade…
— Maurice Blanchot
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually…
— Richard Phillips
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This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.
— William E. Gladstone
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I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
— Unknown Author
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The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too, the…
— Buddha
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one…
— James Thurber
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
— Albert Camus
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