Ascetic Quotes
Discipline, solitude, and the pull toward simplicity.
This collection looks at asceticism from several angles, including a childhood shaped by a well-educated, solitude-loving monk from the order of Pijar. Related reflections on restraint continue under Afford quotes.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Afford Quotes
Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst...
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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One speaker compares a frenetic love of work to an ascetic's hair shirt, while another insists true asceticism lies in treating everyone alike rather than in mere words or ritual bathing. See also Art quotes.
