Anorexia Quote by Marya Hornbacher

“The images start to darken and she feels another hunger well up in her, this one having to do with another kind of desire.…

— Melissa St. Hilaire

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

— Jacques Barzun

“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very roots of…

— Wendy Steiner

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

— Deepak Chopra

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly…

— Tara Brach

What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that…

— Martha Nussbaum

“Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his position and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

— Pat Conroy

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

— Napoleon Hill

“That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities term this…

— David Foster Wallace

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe