Withdraw Quotes
216 quotes by 186 authors
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
— Christopher Hitchens
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are…
— Bruno Schulz
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I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s…
— Barack Obama
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our…
— Hermann Hesse
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John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of…
— Ayn Rand
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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
— Victor Hugo
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no…
— Victor Hugo
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If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a…
— William James
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Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's…
— Christopher Paolini
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The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
— Carl Jung
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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and…
— E. M. Forster
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In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from…
— Alan Moore
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From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this…
— Russell Brand
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to…
— Mother Teresa
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It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we…
— Jean Vanier
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Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared;…
— Barbara Mertz
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Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim…
— Henry Miller
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