“Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour, Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled not apple-tress were there, but thorns with… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die: And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding Adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it,… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don’t have that poison,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Matthias pressed his forehead once, briefly, against Brum’s. He knew his mentor could not hear him, but he spoke the words anyway.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people… — Elizabeth Bourgeret Copy Share Image
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“Drugs and Alcohol, although a crutch, have been the downfall of some of our greatest authors, artists & performers. These mind altering,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors.… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
You probably can't imagine there being a glory in your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember, things are… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then… — Noah S. Sweat Copy Share Image
If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Jealousy can’t sour someone to this extreme, can it? (Aiden) It can and it does. Believe me. I’ve seen a lot worse… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image