Romantic Sadism Quotes & Sayings

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny. — R. R. Reno

There began to appear before my romantic eyes ... a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape. — Erik Larson

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life. — Lionel Shriver

Kiernan and baseball - it's like waving a carrot in front of a mule. Put tickets to a ballgame in front of Kiernan's face and he'll follow you pretty much wherever you want to go. After that first game we attended in 1905, it didn't take much for me to convince him to see another game in 1912, and then one in 1924, and so on. — Rysa Walker

I'm your other half. ( ... ) I'll carry your heartbeat in mine. — Jessica Verday

Our true passions are selfish. — Stendhal

Time drowns in the unmeasured monotony of space. Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time. — Thomas Mann

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly." — Oscar Levant

The Human is the most insane species — Hubert Reeves

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it ... — Nicholas Sparks

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done. — Macaulay Culkin

You can go as far as you want to go. — Annie Ilonzeh

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — W. H. Auden

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact. — Dar Williams

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs.
At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night. — LeAnne Mechelle

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. — John Dryden