Art Quote by Jane Collier

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt —…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing…

— John Hockenberry

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and…

— James Allen

“Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires.”

— S. Jae-Jones

“Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth…

— Mary Shelley

“At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion…

— David Hume

“Time: life’s inexorable weapon of humiliation.”

— Shawn Davis

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh.  A tormented writer?  I personally wouldn't have put those two words together.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries…

— George Washington

“a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of relationship to…

— Tom Perrotta