Vitriolically Vehemently Quote by Ruby Lionsdrake

“Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale”

— Miguel Syjuco

“Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something…

— Katherine Ewell

“We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is…

— Albert Pike

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles…

— Charles Inglis

“intense feeling is the mother of eloquence.”

— H. Rider Haggard

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

“fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of”

— Cheryl Strayed

“And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life—that appeared to him the one thing worth…

— Oscar Wilde