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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“You have no idea how many objectives can be obtained by humiliating ones fellow man. But there's a secret to it. The person humiliated can't realize they'd been humiliated.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Humiliation is the strongest feeling, manipulation
“All I remember of my childhood is one day it wasn't there anymore.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Childhood, Memory, Change, Time Lost
“Most people seemed satisfied with the thin decorative glaze and the artful stage lighting that, sometimes, made the bedrock atrocity of the human predicament look somewhat more mysterious or less abhorrent.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Blind Eye To Reality, Rotten Reality, Sad World
“Old age, sickness, death. No escape for anyone. Even the beautiful ones were like soft fruit about to spoil.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Youth, Age, Young/Dying
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Depression, Emptiness, Revulsion
“Act of rebellion. Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever. Why not beat Fate to the punch?”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Suicide
“The heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Impossible Ideas
“It was all a circle back to her.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Circle Of Life, Circle of Love, All Back To One Source
“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”
— Boris Pavlikovsky, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Love, Ethics, Rules of Living, How To Live, How A Person Should Be, Moral Compass
“I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can’t exist without the other.”
— Boris Pavlikovsky, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Good And Evil, Part and Parcel, We Are What We Are