Quotes About Condemned

The man condemned for having 'wheels in his head' had gotten them out of his head and into the heart of the Midway Plaisance

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

I shall not importune him with any opinion of my own as to why I, at bottom a contemplative soul asking nothing better than to live in peace and to be able to read and to write, have been condemned to lead such a stormy existence so fraught with upheavals.

Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as if he condemned the book to be buried alive.

Por su misma naturaleza, cada espíritu con una encarnación está condenado a padecer y gozar en la soledad.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.

There is, I believe, a kind of telepathy between the condemned: a sort of intuitive recognition which can even make itself felt through the medium of the printed page. How else should I feel—without fear of appearing presumptuous, either—for this great man whom I never saw and to whom I could not have spoken, the tender, wincing, pathetic solicitude that painfully comes into being only between fellow-sufferers?

In March 1947, he publicly condemned the abolition of religion in all schools, warning that, "promising freedom of religion while creating institutions of irreligiousness is the height of hypocrisy.

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone

there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

Vi är allesammans fördömda, sa hon, men somliga av oss har tagit av oss ögonbindlarna och sett att inget finns att se. Det är en slags frälsning.

Oh villain! Thou art condemned into everlasting redemption. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

Nice girls at school whose fathers owned a Volvo were unapproachable and probably condemned to spinsterhood for all time, simply because no one had the courage to advance up the drive.

Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and there were a lot of conversations in which Chinese netizens were saying things like, 'served them right.' That was definitely not the official Chinese government policy - which condemned the terrorists.

The Church condemned and suppressed his work, and probably destroyed a lot of it. In the 1880s, two Latin manuscripts of Eckhart's were found. Since 1980 the Dominican Order has sought to reveal that Eckhart was an exemplary Christian mystic and priest.

I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned.

Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair—appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.

Yes, that's as may be; but what about the condemned man?' 'Also a dream, except that he remained asleep, while you woke up. Who can tell which of you is the more fortunate?

cartridge belts. Maybe wood smoke somewhere. Jacob was dark-eyed and pale. He had a young man's beard, only potential, the hint of black whiskers along his jaw looking like something black pressed under a thick pane of smoked glass. At one point he pulled off a glove with his teeth and left it dangling from his mouth as he, what?—opened a K ration? lit a cigarette? The condemned man's last. His bare hand was as white as bone, as small as a child's.

I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.