A Quotes
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“Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.”
“Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“Adultery is an image of hell.”
Source: Works
“Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.”
“Adultery is extravagance.”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic
“Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.”
Source: Stories and Legends
“Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.”
“Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.”
“Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.”
“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”
“Adultery is the injury of nature.”
“Adultery is the root sin that destroyed the creation of God, and is seeking today to destroy all of God's attempts to restore us to the immortality of innocence.”
Source: Adultery
“Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.”
“Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.”
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
“Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.”
“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”
Source: Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound
“Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.”
“Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.”
“Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable.”
Source: Grown Ups
“Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.”
“Adulthood Illnesses"
If only adulthood illnesses
were like those in childhood:
they are cured with
a kiss from mom,
a hot bowl of soup,
a warm cup of milk,
and one tablespoon of honey,
even if adulterated...
[Original poem published in Arabic on November 14, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.”
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
“Adulthood is an attempt to become the antithesis of the wounded child within us.”
“adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.”
“Adulthood is hell. In the face of such a trenchant position, “moralists” today will utter vague, opprobrious grumblings while waiting for a chance to strike with their obscene intimations. Perhaps Lovecraft actually could not become an adult; what is certain is that he did not want to. And given the values that govern the adult world, how can you argue with him? The reality principle, the pleasure principle, competitiveness, permanent challenges, sex and status—hardly reasons to rejoice.
Lovecraft, for his part, knew he had nothing to do with this world. And at each turn he played a losing hand. In theory and in practice. He lost his childhood; he also lost his faith. The world sickened him and he saw no reason to believe that by looking at things better they might appear differently. He saw religions as so many sugar-coated illusions made obsolete by the progress of science. At times, when in an exceptionally good mood, he would speak of the enchanted circle of religious belief, but it was a circle from which he felt banished, anyway.”
Source: H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
“Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.”
“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.”
“Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an aeroplane.”
“Adulthood is like looking both ways to cross a street only to get hit by a falling object. Unpredictable and headache inducing." - fact of life.”
Source: Bad Apple
“Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.”
“Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.”
“Adulthood is when we discover who we are. It's when we figure out some really important stuff-like what our strengths and weaknesses are, what our unique individual gifts are. Also, what shortcomings we must mitigate. It's when go through that very important process of introspection, soul-searching, self-discovery. If we do not go though this process, we inevitably become unhappy people who wake up in the morning, empty, afraid, and unfulfilled.”
Source: The Properties of Perpetual Light
“Adulthood is within the mind and not in age.”
“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard”
“Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.”
“Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.”
Source: The rule of four
“Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.”
Source: Station Eleven
“Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.”
“Adulthood was just a mask that people wore, the mask made up of a thick jowl and double chin and diamond earrings, or a green sporting shirt, but within it a man kept up the nonsense of his infancy, worse now for being without the innocence and the pure joy. Only the values of commerce gave this state a gloss of importance and urgency.”
“Adulting is serious stuff. Yes, it is cool to be independent and getting to do your own thing. But with freedom comes responsibility. Where you are not just responsible for taking care of yourself or earning enough to pay your bills, but you are also responsible for facing Life and dealing with its upheavals and surprises. There are no right or wrong ways to face Life. Everyone has to do what they believe they have to do at a particular moment and keep going. Eventually, you will figure out why what happened to you was part of your own myth unfolding. So, if you are a young adult and are up against a wall, keep the faith and keep walking. Doors will always open, the path will always appear...”
“Adulting is too hard. Let's play something else.”
“Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.”
“Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.”
“Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.”
“Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it.”
Source: Retro Demonology
“Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.”
Source: Gangsta Granny
“Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke, the idea that boys might actually want you.”
Source: The Girls
“Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.”
Source: The Last Detective: A Novel
“Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.”