Scarlyst Quotes & Sayings

We don't want to watch boring characters. — Megalyn Echikunwoke

Go away. Your feet are misshapen and your eyebrows grow together in a threatening way. — Christopher Moore

She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment. A virtuous woman was not supposed to complain about her husband. Her duty was perfect obedience. — Nawal El Saadawi

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. — Glen Cook

Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution; the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realize that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision ... If he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, then generally, because of the insolubility of the conscious situation, the Self manifests. In religious language you could say that the situation without issue is meant to force the man to rely on an act of God. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time. — Muriel Barbery

My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism. — Ann Coulter

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary. — Eric Gill

I suppose falling in love is finding that one person who can appreciate and understand why you want the things you want and do the things you do. — Jeffery Self