Top 14 Quotes About Self Flagellation
#1. It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.
D.H. Lawrence
#2. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Truman Capote
#4. The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
John Updike
#5. No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.
John Cusack
#6. After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
Chris Pine
#7. I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
John C. Maxwell
#9. It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow.
Michael Hainey
#10. Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
Noel Coward
#11. Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.
Norman Lindsay
#12. Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all.
Paul Bowles
#13. There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
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