Thwarted Quotes

62 quotes by 60 authors

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. — Emile M. Cioran
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… — Aldous Huxley
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. — Juvenal
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed. — Huston Smith
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order — Meister Eckhart
Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it. — David Emerald Womeldorff
What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming… — Chang-Rae Lee
True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search… — Alex Flinn
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each… — Marianne Moore
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of… — Jerome Bruner
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a… — Gore Vidal
I am unwilling to accord to some smallâˆ’minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more… — Nikola Tesla
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast. — Mark Twain
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the… — Brennan Manning
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer… — Lewis Mumford
I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has… — Colleen Houck
LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is our freedom. In… — Morihei Ueshiba
Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar. — Tom Robbins
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it â€” in other words, by becoming civilized â€” that men become fully… — Theodore Dalrymple

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