Degrade Quote by John Fowles Download Open image “One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degrade Effort Loneliness Lonely Oneself Sometimes
We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
There are so many people that feel lonely, that feel like they're not worthy. — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life the person who tries to make everyone happy turns out to be the lonely one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble Copy Share Image
