Quotes of Repulsion - somelinesforyou

“ Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. ”

- George Michael

“ Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? ”

- John Updike
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