Top 11 Irrevocable Quotes

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James A. Baldwin

Home, Irrevocable, Conditions

"Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin (Part 2), www.newyorker.com. 1956.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Valuable, Valuable Things, Irrevocable

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

Douglas MacArthur

Military, Penalties, Irrevocable

Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.157, Turner Publishing Company

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Cheryl Strayed

Sacred, Mysterious, Irrevocable

Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.275, Atlantic Books Ltd

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

Madame de Stael

Irrevocable, Happens

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

George Bernard Shaw

Prison, Irrevocable, Imprisonment

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

Amos Oz

Men, Old Man, Irrevocable

Source: www.spiegel.de

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

George Santayana

Knowledge, Mind, Irrevocable

George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.95, MIT Press

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Earth, Irrevocable, Has Beens

Rainer Maria Rilke (1961). “Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition”, p.67, Univ of California Press

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Tests, Failing, Irrevocable

Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books