“Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.” IfsLoveWould BeFeltImagineHorribleBearableHorrible Things Author:R. K. Milholland
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.” WorldDifferentWholeTogetherIndividualForgetCitiesLeaderEnemyClassWatchesImagineCallingDevilSittingSightWhole WorldHorribleFlamesSmokingCoveredImagine ThatThronesProvincesBabylonLocality Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.” MenI CanSelfHandsAbleImagineWonderfulLetting GoHorribleNever QuitHorrible ThingsOarRuthlessness Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.” MenYearsSelfBodyPainSufferingFatherLiteratureGrowsGrowing UpImagineMouthsAbuseBasesDown AndSilentTerrorLegsTraumaYour BodyHorribleImagine ThatPassiveFemininityAnother ManCoveringUnspeakableSuffering And Pain Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.” MenFirstsLyingImagineColorRegardBravePaintVicesHorribleCowardAbandonedDespiseDisgustingTestimonyDisgracefulAffording Author:Michel de Montaigne
“My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.” WellsI CanSidesImagineEffectsMy FriendsHorribleImagine ThatSide Effects Author:Hamilton Leithauser