Altars Quote by Joseph de Maistre

“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end,…

— Joseph de Maistre

“Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped…

— Joseph de Maistre

“It is no less silly to trouble yourself about death than you do about gravitation. Can you realize that death, which you have yet…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here,…

— Carl Sagan

“Creatures shall be seen on the earth who will always be fighting one another, with the greatest losses and frequent deaths on either side.…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the killing of…

— Émile Zola

For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive,…

— John Armstrong

As one who over taken by the end Gives up his errand, and lets death descend Upon him where he is, with nothing done…

— Robert Frost

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to…

— Albert Camus

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves…

— James Baldwin

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off…

— John Ruskin

Jesus sacrificed His life so that we may enter Heaven through Him. That is such a powerful sacrifice; He set aside His diety to…

— Melanie Yardley