Killjoy Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Killjoy Restraint Self Self restraint
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. — David Droga Copy Share Image
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be… — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image