Quotes & Sayings About Flagellants

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — Erica Jong

The schoolmastering profession has always attracted homosexual flagellants — Burgo Partridge

Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. — Cintra Wilson

Some people paint for stress relief. Others beat the crap out of punching bags (which, I might add, is very therapeutic). — Christina Farley

To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity. It seemed a worthwhile goal for prospective saints and flagellants. The new asceticism. All the visionary possibilities of the fast. To feed on the plants and animals of earth. To expand and wallow. I cherished his size, the formlessness of it, the sheer vulgar pleasure, his sense of being overwritten prose. Somehow it was the opposite of death. — Don DeLillo

Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches. — Caroline Manzo

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at last over ... can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us In the dark don't we know And when we are paralyzed by nightmares We know what you are. With our first cries we rail against you. We see you in every drop of blood in every tear. — Martine Leavitt

He couldn't look away from the pale curve of Jamie's spine. From the two dimples just above the swell of Jamie's ass. From the tiny pink hole between Jamie's pale, lush cheeks. He felt like a bloody pervert every time he looked at the picture. This time was no exception, but he wasn't looking away. He never could. He licked his dry lips, looking at Jamie's hole. — Alessandra Hazard

The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use - in His own way and for His holy purposes - those who incline their hearts to Him. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

was in black dress slacks, a white shirt, and navy blue suit jacket. — Gayla Drummond

What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style. — Andrew Dost

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel

Americans never quit. — Douglas MacArthur

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Human behavior is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable. — Patrick White