Quotes of: Itself Keyword

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

The Infernals

And it was like I , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

If I Stay

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Killosophy

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Killosophy

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Killosophy

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A Room of One's Own

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Selected Essays, 1778-1830

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...

The Seed

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

Scandalous Desires

What is left to be afraid of?' And he said, 'The possibility that a life itself may prove to be the most worthy struggle.

The Sojourn

A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Memoirs of a Geisha

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Messenger

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

A Nietzsche Reader