Quotes of: Cause Keyword

We all hate pain and suffering but nothings causes humanity to progress quicker than it!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Selected Works

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

Some people hide behind rules and regulations to deliver sadistic punishments, as if they don’t secretly delight in causing pain and abusing their power.

This Book Title is Invisible

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

Beaucoup de gens se plaignent de n'avoir pas ceci ou cela ; mais la cause en est toujours qu'ils ne l'ont point vraiment désiré.

Propos sur le bonheur

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Patches Of Grey

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

The Pilgrimage

You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

Plague

...let me say, on behalf of the entire gay male community, we hate your fucking guts ’cause you landed him. Share, you selfish bastard.

Prey

Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!

Poemas y canciones para el mal de amores Volumen1

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.

Tony Takitani

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.

The Unholy Cause

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.

Unteachable

Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.

The Unnatural History of the Sea

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

The Vanishers

Because when you cared about people, you handed them a little piece of your heart, and with those hands, they had the power to cause pain.

Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman