Impotence Quotes - Page 5

• As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.

  Wright Morris

  Style, Depth, Rage

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• A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

  Hakim Bey

  Fate, Self, People

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• Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Impossible Situations, Omnipotence

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Art, Mean

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• The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Achievement, Faces, Realizing

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Sweet, Inspiration, Greatness

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• Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.

  Gary North

  Blood, Historical, Skins

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• The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

  Julien Torma

  Literature

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• To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Men, Sexuality

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• Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

  Paul Valery

  Ignorance, Men, Precious Gifts

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• Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

  Paul Gauguin

  Essentials, Faces, Irritated

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “Noa Noa: the Tahitian journal”, Dover Pubns

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• I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

  Claude Monet

  Weakness, Chance, Blame

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.

  Stephen King

  Book, Mean, Writing

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Spiritual, Age

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• Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

  Jeremy Collier

  Envy, Despair, Arms

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• O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

  Horace Bushnell

  Self, Redemption, Dry

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.237

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• Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

  Aaron Hill

  Doubt, Mind, Arguing

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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• Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Ignorance, Thinking, Fog

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• The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Soul, Risk

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• Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

  Tucker Max

  People, Defense, Psychological

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• I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

  James Lasdun

  Self Confidence, Emotion, Easy

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• In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Ideas, Sound

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• Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Country, Past, Mirrors

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