Libidinal Investment Quotes & Sayings

I awoke one morning to find myself famous. — George Gordon Byron

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to. — Elena Avila

When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. — Alexis Lichine

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty - the power of ideas. — Ayn Rand

And there was somewhere inside me the thought: By Jove! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about; and it is my first voyage as second mate - and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark. I was pleased. I would not have given up the experience for worlds. I had moments of exultation. Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air, she seemed to me to throw up, like an appeal, like a defiance, like a cry to the clouds without mercy, the words written on her stern: Judea, London. Do or Die. O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting around the world a lot of coal for a freight - to me she was the endeavor, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. — Joseph Conrad

It's a cold sun that casts long shadows. — Christopher Carosa

We can't change our destiny only the course it takes to get there. — Nina Norstrom

His gaze slammed into hers. 'I love you. Never forget that. Never forget ... me.'
He loved her. Emotion bubbled up in her throat, leaving her voice completely wrecked. 'Never,' she rasped. — Larissa Ione

The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than himself. Rousseau is describing a precise libidinal mechanism: the inversion which generates the shift of the libidinal investment from the object to the obstacle itself. This could well be applied to fundamentalist violence - be it Oklahoma City Federal Building, the Twin Towers - was what really mattered, not achieving the noble goal of a truly Christian or Muslim society. — Slavoj Zizek

I took a breath and let it go
and suddenly the air was crisper
and my lungs lighter
and suddenly
there was him
saying my name
in different ways
and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror,
seeing someone I don't know
quite yet
but I can't wait to,
and that is the start of everything. — Charlotte Eriksson

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. — Robertson Davies