Edward Abbey Is Quotations

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.