Unnatural Quotes

• The unnatural, that too is natural.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Nature, Sexuality

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• 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

  Love, Dream, Nature

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• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Night, Light

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 48), 1949.

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• The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

  Robert South

  Mind, Substance, Paradoxical

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 579, Sermons, 1922.

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Action

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• 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

  Nature, Children, Animal

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.238, Broadview Press

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religion, Chastity, Perversion

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 27

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• The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, President, Principles

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• It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Majority Rule, Political, Minorities

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• Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Impossible, Ecology

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “Dramatic works”, p.462

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• All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, People, Special

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• Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

  Amelia Barr

  Science, May, Scientist

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.507, Library of Alexandria

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• You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural.

  Bette Ford

  World, Natural

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Death, Drinking, Beer

  Cathy Hopkins (2007). “Mates, Dates and Chocolate Cheats”, p.13, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  Woody Harrelson

  Excess, Palaces, X Files

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• Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Drinking, Beer, Weight Loss

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.

  Stephen Colbert

  Truth, Scream, X Files

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

  Walt Disney

  Disney Animation, Different, Language

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• To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Heart, Ungrateful, May

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• The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Educational, Justice, Society

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• Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

  Kristin Cashore

  Natural, Ends

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• Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Evil, Together, Elements

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• I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.

  Maria McCann

  Atheist, Strange, Stairs

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