Quotes: Renunciation

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With renunciation life begins.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Sigmund Freud

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I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

Henry Fonda

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Anthony Burgess

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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Gertrude Stein

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Simone Weil

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The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

Jim Ryun

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Renunciation – that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Beatrice Potter Webb

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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

Ramakrishna

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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Charles Dickens

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