"Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Hurt Quotes #Revenge Quotes #Coward Quotes

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

Source : 'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141
“Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.”

Source : "Buchanan, Sharpe's War Of Words". www.cbsnews.com. January 28, 1999.
“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.”
“To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.”
“Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.”
“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”
“I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.217, New Directions Publishing
“How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.”

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