A life without tragedy would not be worth living. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015…

Edward Abbey
565 citations
A life without tragedy would not be worth living. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.25, RosettaBooks
Life Reading Sadness
25

More Author Quotes

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. ✨ Edward Abbey (1996). The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader, p.53, Macmillan
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.16, RosettaBooks
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.30, RosettaBooks
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.9, RosettaBooks
The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of j … ▶

A life without tragedy would not be worth living. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.25, RosettaBooks

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes