Perverse Quotes

151 Perverse quotes by 140 unique authors

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of… — Primo Levi
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. — Anais Nin
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. — John Kennedy Toole
Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts. — Linda Howard
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection:… — Camille Paglia
He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the… — Ian Mcewan
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly… — Charlotte Bronte
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles… — Emily Bronte
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires… — Anais Nin
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all… — Aristophanes
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love.… — Graham Swift
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol… — Suzanne Collins
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a… — Robert Musil
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. — Henry Miller

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