Casting Off Quotations

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.