Picasso-creator-and-destroyer Quote by Françoise Gilot

“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”

— Bryant McGill

“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“As long as I was tortured by love for him, I wanted him to be just as miserable as I was.”

— Laura Elizabeth Woollett

“You do not comprehend. It is not the victim who concerns me so much. It is the effect on the character of the slayer."…

— Agatha Christie

“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my…

— Albert Camus

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She thought that the most brilliant people display fondness for mercy. I could not conceal her opinion from my mind; it was not difficult…

— Sarah Chergui

“There comes a time when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in this world, even the innocent may be forced to…

— Jessica Skye Davies

“Sadists’ of Mlle. Vinteuil’s sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so virtuous by nature, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad,…

— Marcel Proust

“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the…

— Marcel Proust

“Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut?...You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter.…

— Kate Quinn

“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are minefields.”

— Angela Carter