Quotes About Perverse

It was dirty and grown-up and transgressive and thrilling in its perverse little way, all the things I couldn't help being attracted to, being as I'm nothing myself if not perverse.

This was a new low, combining the perverse and the pathetic. Perthetic!

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

I've told you the truth and my name isn't Woman, it's Tally.' 'I've never heard the name Tally before. That's not a name.' A glint touched his dark eyes, something secret and perverse and then the corner of his mouth lifted, the closest thing she'd seen to a smile yet. 'I shall call you Woman.

Ecclesiastes 1:15, "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy because she is guilty about not enjoying her perverse desires.

I didn't much believe in god and the things people labeled as miracles did little to convince me otherwise, but it was at times like these that made me consider which was the more cruel: a cold and random universe or a god with a perverse sense of humor? With all due respect to Blaise Pascal, I chose to believe that no god was better than a cruel one.

You are the most perverse man in the history of my memory. So lie there and die very slowly, creep.

Hugh, you're just being perverse.

Grace had suspected her daughter of being a lesbian. Why else would Agnes have broken off with a perfect match like John Manning? Squandered opportunities were perverse. Oh, that voice, still in Agnes's head.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

The neurosomatic circuit is "polymorphous perverse," in Freud's unappetizing terminology. This merely means that the nervous system itself, taking over as driver, is now directing the rest of the body. "Every act (becomes) an orgasm," said Aleister Crowley, giving his own Tantric emphasis to the polymorphous nature of this circuit.

The Fool Whereabouts unknown My eyes flashed open. The Empress's screams had awakened the dark in me. Reverse, perverse. The Dark Calling. Her smile was broken. It was time. I always know best.

la croyance en des « différences irréductibles » nous engage, sans que nous le voulions, sur une voie périlleuse et perverse, qui conduit à abolir la notion d'universalité, et même celle d'humanité.

From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing.

If there is a sense of reality...then there must also be something we can call a sense of possibility... the sense of possibility could be defined outright as the ability to conceive of everything there might be just as well, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not... It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Empress Messalina has become as synonymous with nymphomania as has the Emperor Caligula with cruelty. Several of the Caesars, most notably Eliogabalus, were almost certainly polymorphously perverse; that is, any sexual aberration was automatically attractive to them, and the more unacceptable an activity might be, the more it therefore appealed.

but for now it feels like I am standing on top of a lighthouse, waiting for my love's ship to come in. For a romantic kind of person, it's not an altogether unpleasant feeling, not for now, anyway. It'll be different when it's not so novel anymore, when not seeing him every day is the new normal, but for now, just for now, longing is its own kind of perverse delight.

God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.