Snuff quotes
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'."
"Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to."
"It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't."
"Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament."
"There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it."
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"They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
"Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits."
"Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted."
