"Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting."

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Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.179, Macmillan

Siri Hustvedt

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings”
“Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.”
“American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.”
“Warming up for the Brewers is that lefthander they got from the Mets, Bill Pulitzer.”
“A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.67, Rutgers University Press
“This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.”
“The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.”
“I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.”

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