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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
— Emile M. Cioran
If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place. — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place. — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Fate...may...be...thwarted.
— Gail Carson Levine
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
— David Emerald Womeldorff
I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
— Elizabeth Kenny
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.
— Helen Keller
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
— Meister Eckhart
what perverted shapes thwarted love can take. Little
— L.M. Montgomery
Thwarted by technobabble.
— Scott Hawkins
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
— Carl Sagan
Knowledge advances as much through negative results and thwarted hypotheses as it does by theories that prove to be correct.
— Sue Armstrong
Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.
— Lauren Graham
And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.
— Andre Agassi
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
— William Goldman
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
— Henri Matisse
It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
— George Orwell
She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.
— Elizabeth Winder
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
— Gordon Allport
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
— Michael Horton
I am compliance itself - when I am not thwarted; - no one more easily led - when I have my own way.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.
— Tom Robbins
Girls must be thwarted early in life.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
— Hugh Kingsmill
A passion thwarted will often go astray.
— Garth Nix
True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.
— Alex Flinn
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
— Huston Smith
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
— Mark Twain
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
— Claude McKay
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
— Louisa May Alcott
We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.
— Marianne Williamson
A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything.
— Stephen Gregory
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Young people do not like to be always thwarted.
— Jane Austen
a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power.
— Cherie Priest