Object Quotes

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I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"… — Alan Watts
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was… — Virginia Woolf
Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing… — Cassandra Clare
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm… — Milan Kundera
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. — Gore Vidal
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its… — Ann Radcliffe
All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her… — Charles Yu
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:… — Victor Hugo
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never… — Marguerite Yourcenar
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the â€œsacredness… — Leon Trotsky
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which… — Lord Byron
It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou… — Saul Bellow
Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. — Marilynne Robinson
I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object. — Stephenie Meyer
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The… — Isaac Asimov
Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find… — Judith McNaught
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves… — Eldridge Cleaver
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing… — Jonathan Franzen

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