Character Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

— Nan Fairbrother

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

— Lily Tomlin

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

— Ovid

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I…

— Sorin Cerin

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

— Meister Eckhart

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

— John Waters

That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

— John Donne

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

— Mona Van Duyn

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

— Aleister Crowley

“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in the first…

— Abhijit Naskar