Best Unnatural Thoughts
224 Unnatural quotes by 195 unique authors
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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but…
— Ayn Rand
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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
— Jane Austen
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know…
— Don DeLillo
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To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset…
— Ted Nugent
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being…
— James Joyce
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Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
— Ted Dekker
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Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
— Robert E. Howard
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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and…
— Agatha Christie
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your…
— Fay Weldon
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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet…
— Radclyffe Hall
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we…
— Richard Rohr
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No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa,…
— Richelle Mead
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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor…
— Suzanne Collins
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Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say,…
— Colin Dexter
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Kreacher said nothing,” said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, “and there’s its twin, unnatural little beasts they…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there…
— Melina Marchetta
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Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is…
— Neal Shusterman
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If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob…
— Mary Hoffman
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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist.…
— Dennis Lehane
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love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.
— Virginia C. Andrews
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And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend?…
— Kristin Cashore
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There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am…
— Kristin Cashore
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The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the…
— Wilfred Owen
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