Abnegation Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into…

— Thomas a Kempis

“The truth of the matter I believe to be this. There is, as I stated at first, no absolute right or wrong in love,…

— Walter Hamilton Plato

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such…

— Plato

“Men that have strength, often misplace the actings of it, because of their folly; and sometimes employ it to base ends, because of their…

— William Symington

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,…

— Bible

“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so…

— Marcel Proust

“The forthrightness of the middle-aged seducer is rarely a matter of confidence or arrogance; it is instead a species of impatient despair born of…

— Alain de Botton

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure,…

— Anonymous

“He is not pestered by the banal desires common to all men; he is tempted by the greatest, the most momentous, messianic temptations; they…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar