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The main dry storage room of Sin du Jour is filled with a light unseen on Earth since a time of abject innocence.
And that was long ago, indeed. — Matt Wallace

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch Spinoza

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it. — Frank Herbert

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. — H.L. Mencken

Abject fear of pagan gods is little different from abject worship of them. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. — Henry A. Kissinger

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! — Alexander Pope

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. — William Hazlitt

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty. — Assegid Habtewold

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he ... — Emily Dickinson

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. — Geoffrey Canada

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. — Kirk Douglas

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. — Juvenal

The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.] — Juvenal

It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you. — Stuart Roosa

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery."
Bram swore. This was going to be ugly. — Tessa Dare

What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. — Epictetus

The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty. — Ernest Cline

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper. — F.B. Meyer

People who crack wise tend to cause just as much laughter as abject anger. — Rick Gualtieri

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself. — David Foster Wallace

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. — Bill Gates

The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas

Jacqs' attempts at initiating sexual relationships usually involved either money or abject failure. — Lyn Gala

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others. — Seneca The Younger

He considered himself in a class above the ordinary run of beggars, who, he said, were an abject lot, without even the decency to be ungrateful. He — George Orwell

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God. — Thomas A Kempis

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. — Mason Cooley

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. — Albert Camus

The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him. — Rush Limbaugh

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. — Viola Davis

Abject misery lies not in what the blanket reveals, but in what it hides. — Steven Erikson

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men. — Thomas A Kempis

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill. — John O. Brennan

If you want to be a private eye, you have to get used to such things as hideous depression and abject despair. — Arthur Byron Cover

A man never is quite such an abject specimen as his wife makes him look, — D.H. Lawrence

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base. — Epicurus

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender. — Winston Churchill

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. — Antony Flew

They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent. — Mary Wollstonecraft

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. — Tryon Edwards

"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly. — Kara Walker

There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions! — Israelmore Ayivor

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. — Jose Marti

My nose was running, I couldn't see worth shit and my brain was still frozen in abject terror. — Karen Chance

The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse. — Nathan Runkle

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure. — Walter Moers

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley