Abel Quotes

“I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“There's so much love in him, Dad." The mating bond showed her a depth of feeling, of heart, even greater than she'd imagined. He was someone special, Andrew Liam Kincaid, and he was hers. "I wish you could see him as I do."

"That would be against the laws of nature," Abel said in a somber tone. "I have to be able to kick his ass if necessary-- therefore, I must see him as the filthy bastard who dared hurt my daughter by getting himself shot."

"Are you threatening my mortally wounded mate?"

Her father pressed a kiss to her temple. "I'll hold of until he's healthy.”
― Nalini Singh, Play of Passion

“Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew endlessly, infinitely. Desolation with a hundred faces and more, desolation of a hundred different kinds and more, like the color blue.”
― Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; … [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. … A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

“I wonder what God must have thought then / When He saw the work of Cain's hand / That the first baby born on the planet / Grew up to kill the third man.”
― Brian M. Boyce, Genesis Beginning

“How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag."

"Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow."

"But what if he's nonbinary?" Abel wondered. "And we've offended him."

"Then he'll eat us." Roa considered it. "I can respect that.”
― Alex London, City of Thieves

“Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.”
― Charles Hermite

“Asked some years later how he (Abel) had managed to forge ahead so rapidly to the front rank he replied, “By studying the masters, not their pupils”- a prescription some popular writers of textbooks might do well to mention in their prefaces as an antidote to the poisonous mediocrity of their uninspired pedagogics.”
― Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics

“No one can ever say the name Abel without saying Cain first.”
― Kimberley Troutte, Soul Stealer

“La libertad absoluta no existe", se recordó con amargura."Cuando creí que había conquistado la mía vuelvo a caer prisionero de las circunstancias" Con el tiempo había logrado tener más libertad que Esteban, más atado a la herencia familiar y a los mandatos sociales. Sin embargo, aunque el tenía el privilegio de elegir sus relaciones amorosas, se dio cuenta de que sus deseos eran ahora esclavizados por una mujer que no podía tener. "¡Carajo!", penso...”
― Magalí Varela, El cruce del laberinto

“Quella volta, Joshua mi rivelò un segreto che poi, come un seme, sarebbe germogliato in me, nel tempo di molti anni e molti dolorosi pensieri. Disse che dovevo stare molto attento perché sebbene la vita scorresse apparentemente come un fiume, dai monti al mare, nello stesso tempo correva però anche in senso contrario, risalendo verso le sorgenti.
Così, ragionare di prima e dopo è illusorio, o quanto meno riduttivo, perché, seppure in modo nascosto, il dopo sempre precede il prima mentre mansueto lo segue.
È un unico movimento, disse.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Abel

“La libertad pura no existe -remató, en el fondo un poco decepcionado -¡Pero! Aunque no somos libres de elegir nuestras circunstancias, si somos libres de asumirlas. Se que no es un consuelo, aunque con el tiempo, comprenderás que la libertad es algo que debes conquistar día a día.”
― Magalí Varela, El cruce del laberinto

“-¿Recuerdas la primera vez que te tuve así conmigo? -le preguntó con voz más ronca de lo habitual. Quiza ya ese día ambos se habían unido con el hilo invisible del destino.
-Ahora sí -susurro Sofía, conmovida como diez años atrás, volvía a oír el sonido del vigoroso corazón de Abel Luzuriaga”
― Magalí Varela, El cruce del laberinto

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (Hermite, 1822-1901) could say without exaggeration, 'Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils.”
― Eric Temple Bell, Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science

“Maté a Abel porque no podía matarte a ti, pero en mi intención estás muerto.”
― José Saramago, Caim

“Some men share brotherly love - that of Cain and Abel.”
― Andrzej Majewski

“In all that galaxy of talent there was no brighter star than Niels Henrik Abel, the man of whom Hermite said, “He has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.”
― Eric Temple Bell

“Um..." Abel feared "um" was officially his catchphrase.”
― Alex London, City of Thieves