Causelessly Quotes & Sayings

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness. — Georges Canguilhem

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet. — Tom Jones

Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning. — Jojo Moyes

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats

Love is a response to values. The amoralist's actual self-appraisal is revealed in his abnormal need to be loved (but not in the rational sense of the word) - to be "loved for himself," i.e., causelessly. James Taggart reveals the nature of such a need: "I don't want to be loved for anything. I want to be loved for myself - not for anything I do or have or say or think. For myself - not for my body or mind or words or works or actions." (Atlas Shrugged.) When his wife asks: "But then ... what is yourself?" he has no answer. — Ayn Rand

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end. — Ben Jonson

She was suddenly as intently conscious of that particular moment, of herself and her own movement. She noticed her gray linen skirt, the rolled sleeve of her gray blouse and her naked arm reaching down for the paper. She felt her heart stop causelessly in the kind of gasp one feels in moments of anticipation. — Ayn Rand

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding. — Erika M. Anderson

The three now faced the moving wall. Trapped, like the last fries in a box with a hungry kid ready to pounce. They had no way to escape. — S.W. Lothian

The towns were like scattered puddles, left behind by a receding tide, still holding some precious drops of electricity, but drying out in a desert of rations, quotas, controls, and power-conservation rules. — Ayn Rand

And in this case his great practice in it was assisted by hate, which, like love, has an eloquence of its own. — Joseph Conrad

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way. — Timothy Keller

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go. — Tift Merritt

In early September, there come — Bruce Lee

[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual ... The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one. — Quentin Smith

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul — Victor Hugo

I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively - or blindly. I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show - or for deafness, I have too much to say. I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart - only by someone's head. — Ayn Rand