Anchorites Quotes & Sayings

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin

Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists. — Alexei Shulgin

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place. — Joy Williams

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven. — Cesare Pavese

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. 'What did they do to you?'
Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. 'They'-he looks about the Chapel-'cured me. They cured me of a terrible wasting disease called mortality. There's a lot of it about. The young hold out for a time, but eventually even the hardiest patient gets reduced to a desiccated embryo, a Strudlebug ... a veined, scrawny, dribbling ... bone clock, whose face betrays how very, very little time they have left. — David Mitchell

FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the air that any thinker breathes; it's the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual's thoughts. — Raif Badawi

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born ... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi ... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me ...
— Masashi Kishimoto

even though I would've preferred E's kiss there instead. Naturally that particular memory flooded my mind's eye. Until then, I hadn't been properly introduced to my magic button. — Lora Ann

Lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the anchorites of daily life, who return unhappy to their solitary rooms. — Peter Ackroyd

Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one. — Ariana Franklin

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged ... — Charlize Theron

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. — Julia Cameron

Like charges, charges of the same sign, strongly repel one another. We can think of it as a dedicated mutual aversion to their own kind, a little as if the world were densely populated by anchorites and misanthropes. — Carl Sagan

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you. — L.V. Lewis

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. — Tom DeMarco

Sure, there were a few more duct-taped tears in the vinyl seats, a few new dings in the fiberglass surfboards lining the walls, but the bacon was still crisp and pancakes were available twenty-four hours a day, the way the good Lord intended. — Rob Thomas

As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition. — Sam Harris

It is a curious fact that the lure of a "good investment" seems to haunt clergymen more persistently than any other class of man. Perhaps it is the modern equivalent of the demons in female shape who used to haunt the anchorites of the Dark Ages. — George Orwell

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life." — Friedrich Nietzsche

The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends. — Kimbra