Quotessence
Home / Topics / Pining Quotes

Pining Quotes

Browse 61 quotes about Pining.

Pining Quotes

“The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.”

WayMayMeanHas BeensMatterShowsHappinessEvilAttitudeSituationTroubleOughtCostDifficultyIncreasePainfulUglyToleranceMoodHelpfulUnhappinessUnworthyPining
Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
Create image

“We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?”

MenHeartMayArtBookPassionHe ManEatingConscienceCooksGrievingCivilizedDeceivingWithout LoveDiningWithout HopePiningWithout Friends
Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Create image

“The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”

ThinkingWorldLife IsLeftSocialBitsEffortPayStrangeBehaviorSimplicityComplexityPrimitiveTechnologicalSocial LifePiningStrange World
Author:Jean Baudrillard
Create image