“The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.” WantShouldEnoughProblemDesireGrowsFateTroubleSickBlameHarshness Author:Cesare Pavese
“He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.” IfsKnowsLoveAbleFacesDesireSufferingPassionLostLove IsMastersLoversCreaturesLimitsBlameMiseryBoundsCreatorRedemptionStrongestImpotenceLove Is Lost Author:Stefan Zweig
“Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.” FacesDesireNamesFitCreaturesBlameAssumingFaultsLustHidingAttributesBrutesSecond PlaceShroudsLustful Book:Poems ... Source: Poems ...
“Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.” ChildrenHas BeensStillsStoriesRealityDesireParentResponsibilityPrinciplesTheoryCreaturesAdultsVictimBlameInnocentCrueltyWickedProtectedGrandparentBlindnessSexuallyCraftyGreat Grandparents Book:The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness Source: The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
“Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?” DreamDesireBoysLaughingFameIllusionBlameSensesAdmirePyramidsUnattainableOutlasting Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton