Piercings quotes
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced."
"Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-."
"Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?"
"Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too."
"Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most."
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