Withers Quotes

81 quotes by 71 authors

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His… — Pearl S. Buck
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the… — Albert Camus
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. — Emile M. Cioran
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until… — Stephen Covey
Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that… — Watchman Nee
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and… — Leo Buscaglia
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's… — Marlon Riggs
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of… — Willis R. Whitney
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have… — Germaine Greer
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part. — George MacDonald
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in… — Ahmad Shamloo
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the… — Samuel Rutherford
We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers. — G. M. Trevelyan
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any… — B. C. Forbes
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and… — Gabriel Marcel
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking… — PZ Myers
Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly. — Ted Dekker
I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we… — Victoria Moran

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