Delight Quote by Therese of Lisieux

“In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the…

— Joseph Conrad

“How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He is tall, lean, violent. This place is his home. It is his playground. The children his playthings till they get their scars. He…

— Pierce Brown

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must…

— Karl Marx

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

— Paulo Coelho

“His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turnings will there be terrains so wild and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I believe he’s a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a…

— Iris Johansen

“He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering… He opened his eyes a moment and they were…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“But man, being endowed with reason, and in this respect like to God, having been made free in his will, and with power over…

— The Church Fathers

“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh brings cities…

— S.U. Pacat

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis

I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps,…

— Julia Ward Howe