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Top 500 Edward Abbey Quotes (2024 Update)
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Edward Abbey Quote: “Suicide: Don’t knock it if you ain’t tried it.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Great art is indefinable but that’s all right; it exists anyway.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or ‘manage’ or ‘exercise stewardship’ in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political – especially that which pretends not to be.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Humility is a virtue when you have no other.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never in my life get to Alaska, for example, but I am grateful that it’s there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Life: another day, another dolor.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I thought I was wrong once,” Seldom said, “but I found out later I was mistaken.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest – next only to lust.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city – as I once did for a couple of years.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama’s lap from alcohol and infantilism.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything – while the music lasts.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “All living things on earth are kindred.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life’s basic consolations.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? ‘Separate checks, please.’”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If the end does not justify the means – what can?”
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