Quotes About Purity

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Ultrarunners had no reason to cheat, because they had nothing to gain: no fame, no wealth, no medals. No one knew who they were, or cared who won their strange rambles through the woods.

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.

I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, deafer, deeper, less good, less bad, less pretty. Yet that thing too runs the risk, in our coarse hands, of becoming transformed into "purity", our hands that are coarse and full of words.

One thing I do know: love, however violent, is pure. And that is how I have come to discover that I am not pure.

Denuncio nossa fraqueza, denuncio o horror alucinante de morrer - e respondo a toda essa infâmia com - exatamente isto que vai agora ficar escrito - e respondo a toda essa infâmia com alegria. Puríssima e levíssima alegria. A minha única salvação é a alegria.

Because it's too cruel to know that life is just one time and that we have no guarantee outside our faith in shadows - because it's too cruel, so I respond with the purity of an untamable happiness. I refuse to be sad. Let us be joyful.

Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body.

When you understand where the words dirty and holy intersect, you will have found the secret to everything.

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Pureté et solitude sont un seul et même malheur.

The word "pure" has never revealed an intelligible meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it – in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Simplicity is the seal of truth!

She knew, then, that this solemn form of joy, so pure because it had no content, so reliable because it relied on nobody else, was the state for which she would henceforth strive.

Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water

Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. Ä°t's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. Ä°t's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. Ä°t's a part of me that's been lost.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

But we yearn for our origins; we yearn for an innocent terrain.

You tell me the word pristine was perfect. It was the cure.

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Only a pure heart can recognize a beautiful and a happy soul.

So long as there really was nothing wrong with his soul.