Quotes: Renunciation

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With renunciation life begins.

Natalie Clifford Barney

writer and salonist (1876-1972)

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

Sigmund Freud

Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)

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

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

Anthony Burgess

English writer and composer (1917-1993)

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

American author (1874-1946)

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

Simone Weil

(1909-1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, writer and social activist

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

American politician and athletics competitor; U.S. Congressman from Kansas

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

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

Ramakrishna

Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836-1886)

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Charles Dickens

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