"We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Agony Quotes #Might Quotes #Beloved Quotes

“And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
“My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan
“A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”
“Iâ€™ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fearâ€”not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparationâ€”you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.”
“Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.”
“I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.”

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