Quotes with unnatural

  • To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
  • Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Aldous Huxley Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Marty Feldman Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Robert Briffault For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
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  • Boethius Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bob Dylan I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Primo Levi I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • James Joyce Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • H.G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Sir John Harvey Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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  • Benjamin Rush The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The unnatural, that too is natural.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Beth Ditto This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Aldous Huxley When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • August Strindberg Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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