“Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.” — William Lashner Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe called it “the imp of the perverse,” that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.” — Jennifer Mugrage Copy Share Image
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
“Perversity, sadism, sexual aberration, etc., are parts of the nomenclature of the human spirit—just like altruism, fellowship, love, and all that. No,… — Edward Lee Copy Share Image
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“What sort of perverse beast uses sex to lure a woman into a game of table tennis?” — R.R. Hood Copy Share Image
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well! — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
