Shame can kill the
Shame can kill the imagination. It’s hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. Eloisa James
Derision
The Christian faith from
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation. Friedrich Nietzsche
Derision is never so
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
The Southern newspapers, with
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace – the handcuff, the last – the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives – the weary trudging in droves … Read more
He felt … a
He felt … a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an … Read more
If you’re going to
If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is. Charles Bukowski
If you’re going to
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. Charles Bukowski
But courage in fighting
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one’s own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly … Read more
The great ideals of
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles. Benjamin Cardozo
I am engaged in
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . Arthur Conan Doyle