Inflicted Quotes
202 Inflicted quotes by 179 unique authors
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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -…
— Charlotte Bronte
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land…
— Aldo Leopold
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Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst…
— William P. Young
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Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not…
— Dalai Lama
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But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree…
— Julius Lester
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Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that…
— David Gemmell
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So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
— Jonathan Franzen
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Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
— Brennan Manning
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I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering…
— Henry Rollins
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Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in…
— Terry Pratchett
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It’s not the pain that’s inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It’s the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her…
— Allison Pearson
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Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon…
— Aldous Huxley
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I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else.…
— Kami Garcia
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Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned;…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.…
— Peter Drucker
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I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was…
— G.A. Henty
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I’ve done what Lorien has intended me to do, and that’s to undo damage that’s been inflicted on those who don’t deserve it.
— Pittacus Lore
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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another…
— Osamu Dazai
Who Wrote These Inflicted Quotes
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