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Naturalism Quotes (page 70)

Daphne du Maurier quote: "And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were..."
And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. Daphne du Maurier
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help. Fyodor Dostoevsky
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance -- a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage -- forget it. Charlotte Bronte
This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. (I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm . . . They admit that the inventors of this writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but maintain that this... Jorge Luis Borges
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge. Edgar Allan Poe
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. Nicholas Sparks
Of Congress, "party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire...are but secondary considerations," that "business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment. George Washington
Michael Ondaatje quote: "In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her..."
In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her careful focus on the world. Michael Ondaatje
Charlaine Harris quote: "What's the nature of your emergency?' oh, shit! Just come!..."
What's the nature of your emergency?' oh, shit! Just come! There are dead people out here! Charlaine Harris
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects. Philip Pullman
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is..."
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten. Hunter S. Thompson
George R. R. Martin quote: "Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's..."
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna George R. R. Martin
We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark. Lorenzo Snow
For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is... Francis Bacon
[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on. William James

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