"Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse."

-- Peter De Vries

#Self Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Celibacy Quotes

“Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310
“There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.17, Read Books Ltd
“When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues”
“I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.”

Source : Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”
“Without God, I don't see how folks cope.”
“I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.”
“If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.”

Source : "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.
“He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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