“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.” SelfPoetryPoetGoes OnCrueltyCuriousAdmitting Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.” WorldChildrenStillsWarHumanityFallNextMorningOur LivesGoes OnHorrorWake UpFalling In LoveCrueltyUps & Downs Author:Paul Auster
“The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.” SufferingAnimalGoes OnSuperiorsCrueltyProductiveSubstitutesExploitationAdequateSlaughterCarnivalsAnimal Suffering Author:H. Jay Dinshah
“What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.” MayReasonMomentsPainJoyGoes OnTerriblePhotographyCrueltyFleetingObsceneMoments Of LifeBefore Death Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.” CausesViolenceGoes OnTerribleScalesLocalsCrueltyDividedKentuckyLarge ScaleHeartlessness Author:Wendell Berry