“There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.”
Albert Schweitzer
“When I am suffering, I see death is better than life. When I am happy, I see life is better than death.”
Thanh Luu
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
“With renunciation life begins.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
“Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned”
Buddha
“The man who has renounced war has renounced a grand life.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.”
Anthony Burgess