Withdrawn Quotes

82 quotes by 75 authors

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. — Paul Cezanne
When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also… — Antonio Damasio
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,… — Henry David Thoreau
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer… — Madeleine L'Engle
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with… — Ahmad ibn Ajiba
The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it… — John Burroughs
...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she… — William Crookes
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all… — Thomas Jefferson
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow… — Jean Baudrillard
The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and… — Douglas Harding
The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once… — Phyllis McGinley
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies. — Herbert Marcuse
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse… — Marjorie Pizer
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in… — Friedrich Schiller
When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it… — Dallin H. Oaks
I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person. — Layne Staley

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